Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 19, 1995, 8:19 PM EST for Pike County, Ross County, Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 1995, 8:19 PM EST (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 20, 1995, 12:15 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1412 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 391 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 200124 FFWILN OHC141-131-145-200515- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 819 PM EST THU JAN 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...ROSS COUNTY IN SOUTH OHIO ...PIKE COUNTY...SCIOTO COUNTY ...FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS...URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE... RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW THAT UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURING THE PAST HOUR IN THE SOUTHWESTERN PART OF ROSS COUNTY. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL OVER THE AREA THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS REPORTED WATER ACROSS STATE ROUTE 73 SOUTH OF OTWAY AND NORTH OF RARDON IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF SCIOTO COUNTY. 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. AVOID CROSSING FLOWING WATER...EITHER IN YOUR CAR OR ON FOOT. THE SWIFT CURRENT CAN SWEEP YOU OFF YOUR FEET OR CARRY YOUR CAR AWAY. ST|AY AWAY FROM DRAINS...DITCHES...AND LOW SPOTS. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER...MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. WHEELER &
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 4:30 PM EST, 3 hours 49 minutes before
OHZ070>073-077>082-086-KYZ089>097-099-100-200300 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 430 PM EST THU JAN 19 1995 ...A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT FOR THE SOUTHERN QUARTER OF OHIO... ...A SNOW ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHERN KENTUCKY FOR FRIDAY... A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY IS FORECAST TO MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION OVERNIGHT. PERIODS OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT OVER SOUTHERN OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY. THE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO MIX WITH SNOW TOWARD DAYBREAK AND THEN CHANGE COMPLETELY OVER TO SNOW DURING MID MORNING. SNOW WILL START ACCUMULATING ACROSS THE AREA BY LATE IN THE MORNING. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE BY FRIDAY EVENING. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR WINTER-LIKE DRIVING CONDITIONS ON FRIDAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES ON THIS WINTER WEATHER SITUATION. LOTT
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.