Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 183, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 1995, 2:10 PM EDT for Mason County, Robertson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1995, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1995, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mason County, KY, Robertson County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 980 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 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 191810 FFWILN KYC161-201-192015- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 210 PM EDT SAT AUG 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH KENTUCKY ...MASON COUNTY...ROBERTSON COUNTY AT 207 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN WILMINGTON OHIO INDICATED UP TO 1 1/2 INCHES OF RAINFALL SINCE 1 PM EDT OVER MASON AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY. THESE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST OHIO WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. NEVER DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO A FLOODED R OADWAY. 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. RAPS
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 19, 9:57 AM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 9:57 AM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 955 AM EDT SAT AUG 19 1995 VORT MAX PROGGED TO SINK FM C OH INTO KY THIS AFT. 12Z UPPER AIR DATA SHOWS 500H COLD POOL CENTERED NR DAY WITH 850H DWPT TOUNGE FM S WV INTO SW OH TO C AND N IN. DRIER AIR AND LOW LVL DIFFLUENCE SHOWG UP ACROSS NE OH. MODIFIED 12Z SHARP DATA SHOWS ONCE AGAIN PRECIPITABLE H20 NR 2 IN AT DAY WITH A K INDEX OF 36 AND AN LI OF -10. WIND FIELD IS EXTREMELY LIGHT SO HEAVY RAIN TSTMS EXPECTED WITH ONLY ISOL PULSE (UNFORECASTABLE) STRONG WIND GUSTS. WL KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON PCPN ESTIMATES OF RADAR FOR ANY NECESSARY FLOOD WARNINGS. FOCUS WL BE FM DAY AND CMH SWARD. 12Z SFC CHART SHOWED WEAK LOW NR ROH WITH 850H LOW NR CMH. BFR CU BECOMES BKN...TEMPS MAY RISE INTO LOWER 90S MOST AREAS. EXPECT TSTM ACTIVITY TO PERSIST INTO THE EVENG ACROSS S OH...SE IN AND N KY. SANDLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 4:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Kenton | 4 hr |
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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.