Flash Flood Warning 155, NWS Wilmington, OH

Issued

Aug 8, 1995, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)

Expired

Aug 8, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Wilmington, OH

Area

Whole counties

County Logan County, OH

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KCVG 082032 COR
FFWILN
OHC091-082330-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
427 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL
730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO

   ...LOGAN COUNTY

AT 420 PM...AN OFFICIAL IN LOGAN COUNTY REPORTED NUMEROUS ROADS
STILL UNDER WATER. THE WORST FLOODING WAS IN THE SOUTHWEST PART
OF THE COUNTY IN LOCATIONS SUCH AS QUINCY...DEGRAFF AND
LOGANSVILLE.

AT 420 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED ONLY SPOTTY SHOWERS IN THE
AREA.  THE FLOODING PROBLEMS WERE CAUSED BY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
THAT OCCURRED THIS MORNING.  MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED LATE THIS
EVENING THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...THUS THE FLOODING PROBLEMS
WILL LIKELY BE AGGRAVATED.

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.

SANDLER
CORRECTED TO REMOVE EBS HEADER
$$

NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 8, 3:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
305 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 1995

WL KEEP DISCUSSION SHORT.  FLOODG PROBLEMS STILL CONTINUE N AND NE OF
DAY AND ACROSS LICKING CO.  10.64 IN OF R REPORTED IN W CHAMPAIGN CO!

NGM AND CURRENT CONDITIONS...INCLUDING SATELLITE AND OBS...CONFIRM AREA
OF SUBSIDENCE OVER US BETWEEN CONVECTION IN E OH AND STORMS IN IL.
LOW CLDS HAVE BEEN STUBBORN AND SFC HTG MINIMIZED THIS AFT.  APPEARS
NOW THAT BEST UVV WL OCCUR OVERNIGHT INTO WED MORNG OVER THE CWA...
ALTHOUGH ETA FRH64 MUCH LESS AGRESSIVE WITH PCPN THAN NGM FRHT64.
MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY READY TO BE HARNESSED AGAIN SO A BAD PROBLEM
COULD GET WORSE OVERNIGHT.  I`M LEANG HEAVILLY TOWA>RD NGM QPF.

IT APPEARS THAT WE ARE UNDER THE GUN FOR PCPN THRU EARLY THU UNTIL
RIDGING AT ALL LVLS MOVES IN AND MOISTURE FINALLY DECREASES WITH
DRIER W WINDS.

SANDLER

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.