Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1995, 4:30 AM EST for Fayette County, Franklin County, Union County, Indiana. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 4:30 AM EST (09:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 8:45 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Union County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:31 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 180932 FFWILN INC177-161-041-047-OHC135-181345- BULLETIN FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 530 AM EDT (430 AM EST) THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM EDT (845 AM EST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA ...FRANKLIN COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA ...WAYNE...FAYETTE...AND UNION COUNTIES... IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO ...PREBLE COUNTY... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN THIS MORNING ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA...AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE FALLEN FROM FRANKLIN COUNTY THROUGH UNION INTO WEST CENTRAL PREBLE COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW A LARGE AREA OF AROUND 1 INCH OF RAIN DURING THE PAST 3 HOURS ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND. RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS...CAUSING STREAMS TO RISE ABOVE BANKFULL AND FLOODING OF LOW LAND AREAS. 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. RANDALL
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 18, 1:58 AM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 1:58 AM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 257 AM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 BROAD AREA OF PCPN ACRS IND/IL/NRN KY NOW MAKING ITS WAY ACRS WRN FA. SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN LIKELY AND WITH FFG VERY LOW ACRS E CNTRL/SE IND...WL HAV TO WATCH CLOSELY. SERIES SFC LOWS TO TRACK NEWRD ALG FNTL BNDRY THRU TNGT. WITH PLENTY OF MSTR IN PLACE CRNT FCST LOOKS GOOD WITH PCPN INTO FRI MRNG. AMS BCMS VERY UNSTBL LATE THIS AFTN WITH LI/S OF -4 TO -8. LOOKS LIKE GOOD CHC FOR A FEW SVR TSTMS THIS AFTN/EVNG. AIR STABILIZES SOMEWHAT TNGT BUT WITH UPR LVL LO TRACKING ACRS RGN... SVR WX MAY XTND OVRNGT. PCPN SHUD FINALLY START DECRSG FROM W THRU FRI AFTN AS LOW MOVS OFF TO E. DRYING SLOW TO MOVE IN THO...SO CLDS SHUD HANG ARND. CMH 66/52/63 DAY 66/51/65 CVG 69/55/67 LOTT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 18, 1:27 AM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
KYZ089-181200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 226 AM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM FOR CARROLL COUNTY KENTUCKY... AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY WILL BE MOVING EAST THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AS THEY APPROACH NORTHERN KENTUCKY. AS A RESULT...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY. CARROLL COUNTY KENTUCKY IS INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH. REMEMBER THAT A WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER. PEOPLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENI8NG WEATHER CONDITIONS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR A LOCAL NEWS SOURCE FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. LOTT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 3:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley | 4 hr |
| May 18, 4:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Wayne | 4 hr |
| May 18, 8:44 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Wayne | 3 hr |
| May 18, 8:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Union | 3 hr |
| May 18, 9:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ripley | 113 min |
| May 18, 5:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ripley | 40 min |
| May 18, 6:05 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Wayne | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.