Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 102, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1995, 3:21 AM EDT for Delaware County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1995, 3:21 AM EDT (07:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1995, 6:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Delaware County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 270720 FFWILN OHC041-271030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 321 AM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...DELAWARE COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER DELAWARE COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING. MOST OF THIS PRECIPITATION SHOULD FINALLY COME TO AN END BY 400 AM. THE PERSISTANT RAINS...HOWEVER...HAVE DROPPED AN ESTIMATED THREE TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS A LARGE PORTION DELAWARE COUNTY SINCE MIDNIGHT ACCORDING TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN DELAWARE COUNTY CONTINUE TO REPORT HIGH WATER COVERING NUMEROUS ROADS ACROSS THE COUNTY...INCLUDING UNITED STATES HIGHWAY 23. REMEMBER THAT MOST FLOOD DEATHS ARE THE RESULT OF EITHER DRIVING INTO FLOOD WATERS OR CHILDREN PLAYING IN FLOODED AREAS. NEVER DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADWAYS. THE WATER LEVEL MAY BE MUCH DEEPER THAN YOU THINK...OR THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT COMPLETELY. DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN PLAY NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES OR STREAMS. HYSELL &
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 27, 2:47 AM EDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:47 AM EDT, 34 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 245 AM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995 ATTM VERY HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING TSTMS FM LANCASTER AND CMH NWARD MOVG N AT 25 MPH. 3 HR PCPN TOTALS HAS UP TO 4 IN ACROSS DELAWARE AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. TSTMS SHOULD BE N OF DELAWARE COUNTY BY 4 AM. FOR TODAY SLGT RISK LOOKS GOOD. CWA IN LF QUAD OF UPPER JET. CYCLONIC FLOW...INSTABILITY...SFC HTG...AND LEFTOVER BNDRYS WL LEAD TO TSTM DEV. UPPER LOW BLOCKED AND MEANDERS N OVER IL AND WI THRU WED SO STORMY WX CONTINUES INTO WED AS WELL. PREFER FWC MOS TEMPS AND HIGHER FAN POPS. CVG 82/66/82/67 CMH 83/66/82/66 DAY 82/66/82/66 SANDLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Greene | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Madison | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Allen, Putnam | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Madison | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Pickaway | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 56 min |
| Jun 27, 1:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Madison, Union | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Franklin | 3 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.