Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 150, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 1995, 11:20 AM EDT for Clark County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1995, 11:20 AM EDT (15:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1995, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 36 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 081522 FFWILN OHC023-081815- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1120 AM EDT TUE AUG 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO ...CLARK COUNTY AT 1118 AM EDT...OFFICIALS IN CLARK COUNTY REPORTED WATER RAPIDLY RISINFG OVER ROADS IN NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY. NUMEROUS ROADS WILL HAVE TO BE CLOSED...AS WELL AS SEVERAL BRIDGES. WHILE THERE WAS NO PRECIPITATION ACROSS CLARK COUNTY AT THIS TIME...THE HEAVY RAIN FROM CHAMPAIGN COUNTY TO THE NORTH IS RUNNING INTO NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON...SO BE ALERT TO WORSENING CONDITIONS IF RAIN BEGINS AGAIN. 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 UNSUREv 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 8, 10:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 10:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 11:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Miami | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Shelby | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Champaign | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Miami | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Logan | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Mercer | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Shelby | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Champaign | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Delaware | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Mercer | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Darke | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Miami | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Logan | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 7:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Allen | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 8:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Shelby | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Champaign | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Delaware | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Mercer | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Logan | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Licking | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Miami, Shelby | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Mercer | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Logan | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Licking | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Logan | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Miami, Shelby | 117 min |
| Aug 8, 4:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Mercer | 117 min |
| Aug 8, 6:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Darke, Miami | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Mercer | 3 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.