Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995

Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 17, 1995Fayette County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 1995, 8:00 AM EDT for Fayette County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 1995, 8:00 AM EDT (12:00 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1995, 11:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Fayette County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 181 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 17, 2:52 AM EDT, 5 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 2:52 AM EDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
251 AM EDT WED MAY 17 1995

NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK AT STUFF THIS MRNG. RW/TRW CONTG ACRS FA...RW+
AT ILN ATTM. GLIMPSE AT NEW MODELS SHWG CONTD WET THRU THUR PER CRNT
FCST. FFA SRN 2/3 FA LOOKS GOOD.

LOTT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 12:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown37 min
May 17, 12:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont35 min
May 17, 2:44 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNButler, Preble5 hr
May 17, 8:00 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNPreble3 hr
May 17, 10:42 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNScioto3 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.