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Flash Flood Warning 129, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 7, 1995Carroll County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 1995, 6:23 PM EDT for Carroll County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 1995, 6:23 PM EDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Carroll County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 072228
FFWILN
KYC041-080130-
 
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
628 PM EDT MON AUG 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM
EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH KENTUCKY
 
   ...CARROLL COUNTY
 
AT 620 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATED 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD
FALLEN OVER WESTERN CARROLL COUNTY SINCE 530 PM EDT. A BAND OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WAS PUSHING EAST ACROSS THE COUNTY AT THIS TIME. THESE
STORMS CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS UP
TO 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING MOSTLY EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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.
 
DIAN

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, 2:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 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

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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.