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Flash Flood Warning 113, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 23, 1995Butler County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1995, 5:59 PM EDT for Butler County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1995, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1995, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Butler County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 1995-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 302 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 1995-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
828 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 232156
FFWILN
OHC017-240000-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
ISSUED BY CLEVELAND OH
559 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...BUTLER COUNTY
 
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN OXFORD REPORTED 6 TO 8 INCHES OF WATER ON
SOME ROADS. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN BETWEEN 430 PM AND 550 PM.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
KIELTYKA
 
 
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGreene, Montgomery45 min
Jul 23, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMadison47 min
Jul 23, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield36 min
Jul 23, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams46 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.