Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 1995, 5:33 AM EDT for Brown County, Clermont County, Highland County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1995, 5:33 AM EDT (09:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1995, 8:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Highland County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 140934 FFWILN OHC015-025-071-141230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 533 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST OHIO ...BROWN COUNTY...CLERMONT COUNTY...HIGHLAND COUNTY PERSISTENT HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED TO BE OBSERVED ON DOPPLER RADAR OVER HIGHLAND...BROWN...AND CLERMONT COUNTIES. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN CLERMONT COUNTY REPORTED WATER OVER U.S. HIGHWAY 50 NEAR PERINTOWN. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THIS AREA THROUGH 730 AM WHICH WILL ONLY WORSEN FLOODING CONDITIONS. DOPPLER RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES SHOW AROUND TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACORSS THIS AREA BETWEEN 300 AND 515 AM. NEVER DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO A FLOODED ROADWAY. YOU CAN EASILY BECOME STRANDED OR TRAPPED. THE DEPTH OF WATER IS NOT ALWAYS OBVIOUS. IF YOU ARE UNSURE ABOUT THE ROAD CONDITION OR THE WATER LEVEL AHEAD OF YOU...TURN AROUND AND TAKE ANOTHER ROUTE. 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 May 13, 8:18 PM EDT, 9 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 8:18 PM EDT, 9 hours 15 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 820 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 1995 LTST SFC ANLYS SHWS DEEP LO PRES OVR SW MN WITH WRMFNT EXTNDG SE ACRS WRN IL THRU WRN KY. SGT/SVR STMS HV DVLPD N OF WRMFNT ACRS NRN IL. WRMFNT LIFTS NE INTO OH OVRNGT WITH H85 50 KT JET PUNCHING INTO W CNTRL OH AT 06Z. XPCT CNVTN TO DVLP ACRS WRN OH AFTR MDNGT AND INTO CNTRL OH OVRNGT. WITH STG H85 JET CROSSING WRMFNT SVR TSTMS WL BE PSBL OVRNGT. TEMP WISE...SW OH(CVG & DAY) ARE NR LOWS WITH TEMPS NR DWPT TEMPS. TEMPS WL LKLY RISE A FEW DEGS LT TNGT WITH SW OH BCMG WRM SECTORED OVRNGT. CVG 61/84/58 6/3/2 DAY 60/83/59 7/4/2 CMH 59/84/58 7/4/2 RANDALL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 14, 5:03 AM EDT, 30 minutes before
INZ074-058-066-075-073-080-059-050-141000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 502 AM EDT (402 AM EST) SUN MAY 14 1995 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST INDIANA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AND EXIT THE REGION BY 630 AM EDT (530 AM EST). ANY LINGERING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...SO AS A RESULT...THE TOR NADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST INDIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HYSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 12:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Scioto | 68 min |
| May 14, 1:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Madison, Pickaway | 45 min |
| May 14, 1:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Warren | 40 min |
| May 14, 1:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 39 min |
| May 14, 1:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 50 min |
| May 14, 2:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 41 min |
| May 14, 2:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking, Ross | 52 min |
| May 14, 2:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Pickaway | 48 min |
| May 14, 2:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Mercer | 39 min |
| May 14, 2:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Licking | 47 min |
| May 14, 2:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 54 min |
| May 14, 2:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan, Shelby | 47 min |
| May 14, 3:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Marion, Morrow | 53 min |
| May 14, 3:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Brown | 52 min |
| May 14, 3:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 49 min |
| May 14, 3:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Darke, Preble | 27 min |
| May 14, 3:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 32 min |
| May 14, 3:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Montgomery | 53 min |
| May 14, 3:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 46 min |
| May 14, 3:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Greene | 41 min |
| May 14, 4:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Madison | 53 min |
| May 14, 4:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 27 min |
| May 14, 5:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Pike, Ross | 3 hr |
| May 14, 5:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler | 2 hr |
| May 14, 6:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Scioto | 3 hr |
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.