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Flash Flood Warning 128, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 7, 1995Ripley County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 1995, 3:23 PM EST for Ripley County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 1995, 3:23 PM EST (20:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 1995, 6:30 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ripley County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 1995-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 439 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 1995-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
439 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Aug 7, 1:50 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 1:50 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
245 PM EDT MON AUG 7 1995

88D STILL OUT. PRECIP HAS MOVD INTO SE IN AND N KY ATTM. SOME DEV
NOTED ON CLE 88D IN WEST CENTRAL OH. ONLY HAD A LTL TIME TO LK AT
NGM SO FAR. MDL SHWS TROF STALLED OVR OH BY BLOCKING HI OVR NE AND
MID ATL STATES. NGM INDICATES GD RH AVAIL THRU 48 HRS. NGM TEMP AND
POPS LK FAIRLY GD.

CVG 071/083 070/085 574
CMH 070/082 070/083 575
DAY 069/081 068/085 674

PARKER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 8:33 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNPickaway117 min
Aug 7, 5:23 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNCarroll3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.