Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1995, 8:10 PM EDT for Pickaway County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1995, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pickaway County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 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 190016 FFWILN OHC129-190415- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 810 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...PICKAWAY COUNTY HIGH WATER HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER SEVERAL ROADWAYS AROUND CIRCLEVILLE AS OF 805 PM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER PICKAWAY COUNTY THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT WITH ANOTHER 1 TO 1.50 INCHES OF RAIN POSSIBLE. 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. & PARKER
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, 2:04 PM EDT, 6 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 2:04 PM EDT, 6 hours 6 minutes 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, 5:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 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
Special weather statement, May 18, 7:55 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
OHZ081-079-078-080-082-073-086-KYZ097-100-099-096-201-190500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 754 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY...SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND CLERMONT COUNTY UNTIL 100 AM EDT... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO...PARTS OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND CLERMONT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO TONIGHT. AS A RESULT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR BROWN...HIGHLAND...ROSS...PIKE...SCIOTO...AND ADAMS COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO...AND CLERMONT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO. IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY...PENDLETON...BRACKEN...ROBERTSON...MASON...AND LEWIS COUNTIES ARE UNDER THE WATCH WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT. THOSE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. IF THEATNING WEATHER APPROCHES...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, 8:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler | 3 hr |
| May 18, 11:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Darke | 2 hr |
| May 19, 12:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Scioto | 7 hr |
| May 19, 12:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Brown | 6 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.