Flash Flood Warning 149, NWS Wilmington, OH

Issued

Aug 8, 1995, 10:39 AM EDT (14:39 UTC)

Expired

Aug 8, 1995, 2:45 PM EDT

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Wilmington, OH

Area

Whole counties

County Licking County, OH

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KILN 081441
FFWILN
OHC089-081845-
 
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1039 AM EDT TUE AUG 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM
EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...LICKING COUNTY
 
AT 1030 AM EDT...LICKING COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED SEVEREAL ROADS
WERE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. AN OBSERVER IN GRANVILLE REPORTED 2.25
INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 730 AM EDT. ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION ACROSS LICKING
COUNTY AT THIS TIME COULD RESULT IN UP TO AN ADDITIONAL INCH.
 
THE SHOWERS ACROSS LICKING COUNTY WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
ALTHOUGH THE PRECIPITAION SHOULD END ACROSS LICKING COUNTY BY
NOON...ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
 
REMEMBER THAT MOST FLOOD DEATHS ARE THE RESULT OF EITHER DRIVING
INTO FLOOD WATERS OR CHILDREN PLAYING IN FLOODED AREAS. NEVER DRIVjE
INTO FLOODED ROADWAYS. THE WATER LEVEL MAY BE MUCH DEEPER THAN YOU
THINK...OR THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT COMPLETELY. DO NOT LET YOUR
CHILDREN PLAY NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES OR STREAMS.
 
 
DIAN

NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 8, 10:15 AM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1015 AM EDT TUE AUG 8 1995

NO TIME FOR A DISCUSSION.  FLASH FLOOD WOES CONTINUE.  SHELBY...
CHAMPAIGN AND MERCER COUNTIES WERE HIT BAD.  HOPE THAT NO RAIN
DEVELOPS THIS AFT.

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.