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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 12, 1994Ashland County, Richland County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Apr 12, 1994, 5:16 AM EDT for Ashland County, Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 12, 1994, 5:16 AM EDT (09:16 UTC)
Expired
Apr 12, 1994, 8:15 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ashland County, OH, Richland County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 199 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1994-04-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1994-04-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 187 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
531 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 11, 10:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHighland59 min
Apr 11, 10:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton59 min
Apr 11, 11:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont45 min
Apr 12, 1:00 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNAuglaize, Mercer, Van Wert8 hr
Apr 11, 10:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCampbell, Pendleton68 min
Apr 11, 11:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken45 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.