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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 14, 1993Butler County, Hamilton County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1993, 4:45 PM EDT for Butler County, Hamilton County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 1993, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1993, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Butler County, OH, Hamilton County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 72 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 531 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:39 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:40 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-142130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH
440 PM EDT MON JUN 14 1993

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR BOONE...KENTON AND
CAMPBELL COUNTIES IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 530 PM EDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR HAMILTON COUNTY
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 500 PM EDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT (1000 PM EST)
FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST OHIO...SOUTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE THROUGH BOONE AND KENTON COUNTIES
IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY...WITH ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN HAMILTON
COUNTY OHIO. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...
LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

ALL STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 22 MILES AN HOUR.
.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO ARE PRODUCING TORENTIAL DOWNPOURS.
AS A STORM MOVED THROUGH FRANKLIN COUNTY INDIANA...IT PRODUCED ONE
INCH OF RAIN IN 20 MINUTES OVER BATESVILLE INDIANA.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES...BUT IT DOES NOT TAKE A TORNADO TO PRODUCE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE.
BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SEEK SHELTER IN A
STRONG BUILDING AWAY FORM WINDOWS OR IN A BASEMENT IN THE CENTER OF A
BUILDING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS SEVERE
WEATHER SITUATION.

DIAN

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:42 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-142130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH
440 PM EDT MON JUN 14 1993

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR BOONE...KENTON AND
CAMPBELL COUNTIES IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 530 PM EDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR HAMILTON COUNTY
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 500 PM EDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT (1000 PM EST)
FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST OHIO...SOUTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE THROUGH BOONE AND KENTON COUNTIES
IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY...WITH ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN HAMILTON
COUNTY OHIO. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...
LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

ALL STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 22 MILES AN HOUR.
.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO ARE PRODUCING TORENTIAL DOWNPOURS.
AS A STORM MOVED THROUGH FRANKLIN COUNTY INDIANA...IT PRODUCED ONE
INCH OF RAIN IN 20 MINUTES OVER BATESVILLE INDIANA.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES...BUT IT DOES NOT TAKE A TORNADO TO PRODUCE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE.
BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SEEK SHELTER IN A
STRONG BUILDING AWAY FORM WINDOWS OR IN A BASEMENT IN THE CENTER OF A
BUILDING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS SEVERE
WEATHER SITUATION.

DIAN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	65 min
Jun 14, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	46 min
Jun 14, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	47 min
Jun 14, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	41 min
Jun 14, 6:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Hamilton	104 min
Jun 14, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant, Pendleton	60 min
Jun 14, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Owen	60 min
Jun 14, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken	58 min
Jun 14, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin	52 min
Jun 14, 6:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Owen	61 min
Jun 14, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Owen	61 min
Jun 14, 6:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin	116 min
Jun 14, 6:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Pendleton	98 min
Jun 14, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	47 min
Jun 14, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	46 min
Jun 14, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio	46 min
Jun 14, 5:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Ripley	64 min
Jun 14, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	64 min
Jun 14, 5:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio	2 hr
Jun 14, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Switzerland	54 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.