Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 103, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1995, 8:28 PM EST for Fayette County, Wayne County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1995, 8:28 PM EST (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1995, 11:30 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, IN, Wayne County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 280131 FFWILN INC041-177-280430- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 928 PM EDT (828 PM EST) TUE JUN 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM EDT (1130 PM EST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA ...FAYETTE COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED HEAVY RAINS ACROSS PARTS OF FAYETTE AND WAYNE COUNTIES. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW 2.0 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN SINCE 730 PM EST OVER NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY WITH OVER AN INCH OF RAIN ELSEWHERE ACROSS FAYETTE AND SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTIES. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 930 PM EST... PRODUCING ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS. 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 AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LOTT
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, 7:23 PM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 7:23 PM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 823 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995 AGN LTL TIME FOR DISCUSSION W/CONVECTION FIRING IN W OH/E IN. MOST ORGANIZED CONVECTION HAS FORMED IN NW OH AND KILN 88D PCPN ESTIMATES SHOW OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN W/THESE ECHOES WHICH ARE TRAINING FROM S TO N. IF CONVECTION DOESN/T DIE DOWN BY SS...MAY NEED TO PLACE NW OH ZONES IN FFA...W/LACK OF ACTIVITY IN CNTRL OH...FEEL FF WATCH CAN BE CANCELLED. CERTAINLY...POPS IN CNTRL OH WILL HV TO BE LOWERED. FEEL FOG WON/T BE MUCH OF A PROB TNGT...WITH PRES GRAD TO REMAIN TIGHT WINDS SHOULD STAY UP. FOR WED...MODELS IN GOOD AGRMNT IN TAKING 5H LOW AND OPENING UP AND MOVING IT NEWRD...BEST DYNAMICS AND LL INFLOW WILL BE IN NW OH ZNS...SO FEEL HIGHEST POPS SHOULD BE IN THAT AREA...WITH JUST SCT CONVECTION IN S OH /SE IN/N KY WHICH CRNT FCSTS HAVE WELL HANDLED. HYSELL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 5:12 PM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
OHZ056-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 612 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995 ..THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR LICKING COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED SOME ACROSS CENTRAL OHIO THIS EVENING...AND AS A RESULT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR LICKING COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL OHIO THIS EVENING...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. HYSELL
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.