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Flash Flood Warning 101, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 27, 1995Franklin County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1995, 2:10 AM EDT for Franklin County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1995, 2:10 AM EDT (06:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1995, 5:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 102 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1995-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1724 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1995-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1724 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1158 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILN 270608
FFWILN
OHC049-270900-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
210 AM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 210 AM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRING FROM PICKAWAY AND FAIRFIELD
COUNTIES NORTHWARD INTO FRANKLIN AND DELAWARE COUNTIES.
 
SINCE 11 PM OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN MAINLY IN PARTS
OF WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY...NEAR AND WEST OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS.
MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS OVER THIS SAME AREA SO THE THREAT OF
FLASH FLOODING IS HIGH.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT
STAY IN AREASf SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
SANDLER

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.

NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 26, 8:23 PM EDT, 5 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 8:23 PM EDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
822 PM EDT MON JUN 26 1995

W/SVR STORMS OCCURRING ACRS WC OH...NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK OVER FCST.
FEEL SOME TRW CHCS SHOULD BE LEFT IN TONIGHT/S FCST ESP IN W OH WHERE
ADAP SHOWS GREATEST INSTABILITY (-6 TO -8 LI/S) AND BEST MSTR
CONVERGENCE.  W/ VERTICALLY STACKED LOW TO SLOWLY MOVE NE...ANOTHER
ROUND OF TRW LIKELY TUES... LIKED WARMER FWC NMBRS WHICH CRNT
FCST HAS GOOD HANDLE ON.

HYSELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 8:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLogan58 min
Jun 26, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClark, Greene60 min
Jun 26, 8:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Madison66 min
Jun 26, 8:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAllen, Putnam64 min
Jun 26, 9:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Madison62 min
Jun 26, 10:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin, Pickaway58 min
Jun 26, 11:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin57 min
Jun 27, 12:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin56 min
Jun 27, 1:17 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNMadison, Union3 hr
Jun 27, 3:21 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNDelaware3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.