Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 177, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT for Pickaway County, Ohio. It was in force for 75 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1995, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 75 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pickaway County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 112316 FFWILN OHC129-120030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 715 PM EDT FRI AUG 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...PICKAWAY COUNTY AT 710 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR CIRCLEVILLE IN SOUTHEAST PICKAWAY COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT THIS STORM WAS DUMPING 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN AN HOUR. CREEK AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS LIKELY IN THIS AREA. REMEMBER THAT MOST FLOOD DEATHS ARE THE RESULT OF EITHER DRIVING INTO FLOOD WATERS OR CHILDREN PLAYING IN FLOODED AREAS. NEVER DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADWAYS. THE WATER LEVEL MAY BE MUCH DEEPER THAN YOU THINK...OR THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT COMPLETELY. DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN PLAY NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES OR STREAMS. FARINA
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, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 3:02 PM EDT, 4 hours 13 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Scioto | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 6:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Pike, Ross | 50 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.