Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 174, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 1995, 4:50 AM EDT for Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1995, 4:50 AM EDT (08:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1995, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scioto County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 1332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 875 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 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 100851 FFWILN OHC145-101300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 450 AM EDT THU AUG 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH OHIO ...SCIOTO COUNTY AT 440 AM EDT...SERIOUS AND DEVASTATING FLOODING CONDITIONS CONTINUE ACROSS EASTERN SCIOTO COUNTY. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORT THREE PEOPLE STILL MISSING AFTER BEING SWEPT AWAY BY FLOOD WATERS. NUMEROUS ROADS ARE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER AND MUD SLIDES...INCLUDING STATE ROUTE 140. 30 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN EVACUTATED IN GREEN TOWNSHIP DUE TO RISING WATERS. SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE BEEN RESCUED FROM THE TOPS OF THEIR CARS AS SOME ROADS HAVE 10 FEET OF WATER ACROSS THEM. SEVERAL BASEMENTS ARE ALSO FLOODED WITH 6 FEET OF WATER. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS ACROSS EASTERN SCIOTO COUNTY...AND THESE SHOULD DISSIPATE BY 530 AM AND ONLY BRING ANOTHER .25 INCH OF RAIN. THIS SHOULD ALLOW WATERS TO SLOWLY BEGIN TO SUBSIDE. STORM GAUGES AND DOPPLER RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES SHOW THAT AROUND 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS AREA OVERNIGHT. 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. HYSEL|L &
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 10, 3:23 AM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 3:23 AM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 305 AM EDT THU AUG 10 1995 SHWRS AND TSTMS CONT OVR S CNTRL OH AND ISOLD RW ACRS CNTRL OH ATTM. SIGN FLDG ONGOING IN SCIOTO CO. WK BNDRY STILL PRESENT ACRS SRN OH THIS MRNG. JUST HAD TIME TO BRFLY LK AT NGM. VORT STILL PRSENT OVR CWA THRU TDA AND ANOTHER VORT LOBE THRU N AND CNTRL OH FRI. LKS LIKE CHC FOR MNLY AFTN TDA BUT WL HAVE TO MONITOR RADAR TO DETERMINE IF MRNG PRECIP MAY BE NEEDED CNTRL OR S CNTRL OH . ON FRI LKS LIKE BTR CHC PRECIP CNTRL AND N. COORD WITH CLE ON FF WATCH FOR SOUTH CNTRL OH. CVG 070/088 070/092 523 CMH 070/087 069/091 524 DAY 069/088 070/091 523 PARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 10:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Scioto | 4 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.