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Flash Flood Warning 176, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 11, 1995Pike County, Ross County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 1995, 6:40 PM EDT for Pike County, Ross County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 11, 1995, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1995-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1959 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1995-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
1959 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.8

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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 Aug 11, 3:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 3:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
300 PM EDT FRI AUG 11 1995

UNFORTUNATELY GOT CAUGHT WITH HEAVY RAIN IN SC OH WHERE THERE
HAS ALREADY BEEN BAD FLOODING.  THUS HAVE BEEN KEPT BUSY WITH
FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS.  ALREADY BEHIND AND NO TIME FOR DISCUSSION.
WL CANCEL RIVER FLOOD WARNING FOR SCIOTO RIVER AT CIRCLEVILLE
SINCE LEVEL DOWN TO 13.0 FEET AND FLOOD STAGE 14 FEET.

SANDLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 2:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNScioto56 min
Aug 11, 7:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNPickaway75 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.