Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 112, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 1995, 5:09 PM EDT for Franklin County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1995, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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 12:00Z, 9.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 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 162112 FFWILN OHC049-162315- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 509 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...FRANKLIN COUNTY VERY HEAVY RAIN FELL OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN WILMINGTON OHIO INDICATED 1.5 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY SINCE 4 PM. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY THROUGH 6 PM. THIS WILL RESULT IN AREAS OF FLOODING...ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. 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 COMP:LETELY. DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN PLAY NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES OR STREAMS. RAPS
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 Jul 16, 2:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 230 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995 KILN 88D SHOWS TSTMS DEVPG FM SDF TO LEX AND JUST GRAZING S PTN OF CWA ATTM. ALSO TSTMS DEVPG CNTRL IN. NO DEV IN CWA YET. 17Z ADAP SHOWS LI -8 OVR CNTRL AND W OH BUT BEST LI IN N CNTRL IN AND CNTRL KY WHERE TSTMS HAVE DVLP. STILL CHC TSTMS RMNDR OF AFTN AND INTO TNGT. NGM BRINGS FNT TO POSITION THRU NW OH AND SRN IN AT 12Z MON AND THRU CWA BY 00Z TUE. BEST CHC PRECIP TNGT W 2/3 OF CWA AND CHC EXTND INTO ERY MON MRNG E 1/3 CWA. NGM POPS LK GD. MOS TEMP MAY BE A LTL TOO LO TNGT BUT HIS LK OK MON. CVG 073/088 065/085 310 DAY 073/088 065/085 410 CMH 071/090 066/087 420 PARKER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 3:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
INZ074-058-066-075-073-080-059-050-OHZ025-035-070-042-026-034-051- 061-015-060-016-024-162145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 342 PM EDT (242 PM EST) SUN JUL 16 1995 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL OHIO...AND EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EDT (9 PM EST). THE WATCH COVERS THESE COUNTIES... IN OHIO... ALLEN AUGLAIZE HARDIN MERCER PAULDING PUTNAM SHELBY VAN WERT BUTLER MONTGOMERY PREBLE DARKE MIAMI AND IN INDIANA... WAYNE FAYETTE UNION FRANKLIN DEARBORN OHIO RIPLEY SWITZERLAND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT THUNDERSTORMS COULD CONTAIN WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN HOUR AND HAIL 3/4 OF AN INCH OR GREATER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign | 60 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.