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Flash Flood Warning 112, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 16, 1995Franklin County, Ohio

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 508 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNChampaign60 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.