Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 1995, 2:44 AM EDT for Butler County, Preble County, Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1995, 2:44 AM EDT (06:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1995, 7:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, OH, Preble County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:44 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 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1447 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 16, 8:35 PM EDT, 6 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 8:35 PM EDT, 6 hours 9 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 830 PM EDT TUE MAY 16 1995 MCC GETTING ITS ACT TOGETHER ACROSS N MO INTO W IL. CLD TOPS ASSOC WITH IT WERE COOLG QUICKLY. KLOT AND KIND RADARS SHOW A VAST AREA OF RW/TRW MOVG E. ONE LRG SECTION OF THIS AREA NOSED OUT ACROSS C IN ROUGHLY W OF GUS AND IND. AT 30 KT MOVEMT THESE RW/TRW SHOULD ENTER OH AROUND 11 PM BETWEEN DAY AND FDY. MAY BE A LITTLE WHILE AFTER THAT BEFORE PCPN ENTERS FAR SW OH...AS LONG AS MOVEMENT REMAINS ALMOST DUE E. BIG PROBLEMS AHEAD AS INSTABILITY...BOUNDARY AND ABUNDANT MOISTURE INTERACT OVER CWA. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION LOOKS GOOD PERTAINING TO SVR WX POTENTIAL BEING MINOR COMPARED WITH POSS FLOODING. IT`S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TIME PCPN IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE CWA THRU 48 HRS...SO WL PLAY UP RW/TRW POPS WITH LITTLE IF ANY TIMING. OUR CWA...AND ESP THE S CANNOT HANDLE TOO MUCH WATER AND THAT`S WHERE IT`S HEADED. ^ GOT BURNED ON HIGH TEMPS FOR TODAY AS OLD MCC SPREAD CLDS INTO THE RGN. SINCE WE ARE STARTING IN THE 60S TNGT IT IS NO BIG STRETCH TO FCST HIGHS WED IN THE MID-UPPER 70S. SANDLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 12:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 37 min |
| May 17, 12:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 35 min |
| May 17, 8:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fayette | 3 hr |
| May 17, 8:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Preble | 3 hr |
| May 17, 10:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Scioto | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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.