Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1995, 6:05 PM EST for Wayne County, Indiana. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 6:05 PM EST (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 10:30 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 520 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 18, 1:04 PM EST, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 1:04 PM EST, 5 hours 1 minute before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 204 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 EVERYTHING LINING UP ACS S OH/S IN/N KY FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF RW+ AND SEVERE TRW. APPCH OF SFC LO/VORT MAX(WEAKENING BUT STILL STRONG)/850 JET/THTA-E RDG IN PLACE/HI PWS ALL PINPOINT S PART OF CWA FROM APPROX 21Z THRU 06Z. L2Z SHWS HORRENDOUS +50 OVR OH VLY ON MOIST CONV!!! NVR SEEN THAT BEFORE. WUD SUSPECT THAT BOXES WILL FLW SEVERE WX NOW IN S IL/MO AS 500 VORT LIFTS. GOOD AMT OF SHER NEAR SFC BNDRY WUD LEAD TO BLV THAT TOR BOX POSS. REST OF FCST SHWS IMPROVEMENT...THINGS SHOULD START TO CLR OUT AFT PASS OF 700 AND 500 MB TROF AROUND 12Z FRI AM...WITH PRETTY NICE DAY IN STORE FOR SAT. WILL PFOLLOW FWC TEMPS FOR HI/S... DAY 56/70/49/75 *100 CVG 59/71/50/77 *100 CMH 54/71/46/77 *300 FARINA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 18, 4:13 PM EST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
INZ074-066-075-073-080-KYZ091-093-089-090-095-092-094-190415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 511 PM EDT (411 PM EST) THU MAY 18 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR SOUTHEAST INDIANA AND MUCH OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT (1100 PM EST)... MORE SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO FORM AND ENTER INTO NORTHERN KENTUKCY AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION IS EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AND SEVERE WEATHER IS LIKELY... ESPECIALLY IN SOTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY. AS A RESULT A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA...AS WELL AS BOONE...CAMPBELL..CARROLL...GALLATIN...GRANT ...KENTON...AND OWEN COUNTIES IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT WILL LIKELY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND EVEN TORNADOES. THOSE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS OBSERVED...MOVE TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. HYSELL
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 | Fayette, Franklin, Union | 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 |
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.