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Flash Flood Warning 162, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 8, 1995Shelby County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 1995, 10:18 PM EDT for Shelby County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 1995, 10:18 PM EDT (02:18 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 1995, 1:15 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Shelby County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 48 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2117 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 090220
FFWILN
OHC149-090515-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1018 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...SHELBY COUNTY
 
AT 1017 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR AND SATILLITE ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL
ARE TOTALING UP TO THREE AND THIRD (3.33) INCHES HAS OCCURRED SINCE
EARLIER THIS EVENING. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED EVACUATIONS
IN SIDNEY OHIO WITH NUMEROUS ROAD CLOSURES.
 
DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED VERY SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
STILL OCCURRING FROM SIDNEY TO PORT JEFFERSON.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT
STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS FRISING.
 
SAM

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, 9:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 9:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
905 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 1995

DUE TO FLOODING PROBLEMS HAVE HAD NO TIME TO DO AFD TONIGHT.

PARKER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 8:43 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNClark3 hr
Aug 8, 9:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNMiami4 hr
Aug 8, 9:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMiami62 min
Aug 8, 11:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNMontgomery, Preble65 min
Aug 8, 11:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery, Preble65 min
Aug 8, 11:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNClark3 hr
Aug 9, 12:42 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNMontgomery, Preble4 hr
Aug 9, 4:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNUnion2 hr
Aug 9, 6:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNPike, Ross58 min
Aug 9, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams, Scioto67 min

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.