Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 1995, 9:35 PM EDT for Owen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1995, 9:35 PM EDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1995, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Owen County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 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 250137 FFWILN KYC081-187-250330- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 935 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH KENTUCKY ...GRANT COUNTY...OWEN COUNTY AT 930 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATED THAT FROM 0.50 TO 1.0 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 8:30 PM EDT OVER OWEN AND GRANT COUNTIES IN KENTUCKY. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THESE COUNTIES. EXPECT SOME FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS AS PRECIPITATION PERSISTS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED... ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. DIAN
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 24, 8:36 PM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 8:36 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 836 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995 TSTMS APPR TO BE DYING DOWN ATTM BUT STL SOME STG STMS ACRS SE IND. 3/4 INCH HAIL IN RIPLEY CNTY ABOUT 15 MINUTES AGO. NO TIME TO LOOK AT FCSTS. LOTT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 24, 6:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
OHZ046-053>056-061>065-071>074-078>082-086-250300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 646 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995 THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 11 PM EDT. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN OHIO... ADAMS...BROWN...CLARK...CLERMONT...CLINTON...DELAWARE...FAIRFIELD... FAYETTE...FRANKLIN...GREENE...HIGHLAND...HOCKING...LICKING... MADISON...MONTGOMERY...PICKAWAY...PIKE...ROSS...SCIOTO AND WARREN. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. FARINA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 41 min |
| May 24, 9:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen | 2 hr |
| May 25, 8:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 3 hr |
| May 25, 8:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Carroll | 6 hr |
| May 25, 9:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant | 4 hr |
| May 25, 10:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone | 4 hr |
| May 25, 10:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallatin, Owen | 4 hr |
| May 25, 10:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Bracken | 3 hr |
| May 25, 10:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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.