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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 25, 1995Grant County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1995, 9:42 AM EDT for Grant County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1995, 9:42 AM EDT (13:42 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1995, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Grant County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 193 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-180 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 25, 8:32 AM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 8:32 AM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
832 AM EDT THU MAY 25 1995

PROB WONT HAVE TIME TO DO THIS LATER...SO SOME QUICK STATEMTNS NOW. WUD
RCMD FLOOD WATCHES BE ISSUED OVER SOUTHEAST INDIANA...AND NORTHERN
KENTUCKY. ALREADY HAVE ISSUED FFW/S FOR FLOODING IN NRN KY. WV MVG UP
STATIONARY FRONT SHUD BRING LOTS MORE RAIN TO S PRT OF OUR CWA. TEMPS
LOOK PRETTY GOOD BUT MAY WANT TO GO 70 TO 75 OVER SW OH WITH ALL THE
RAIN ANvD CLDS. NRN KY AND SC OH MAY NEED TO BE BROUGHT DOWN A CATEGORY
ALSO.

FARINA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 9:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNFranklin, Greene, Madison2 hr
May 24, 9:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNLicking2 hr
May 24, 9:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNMontgomery2 hr
May 24, 10:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams, Scioto40 min
May 25, 10:42 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNBrown, Clermont3 hr
May 24, 8:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRipley45 min
May 25, 10:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNOhio4 hr
May 24, 8:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNOwen41 min
May 24, 9:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNOwen115 min
May 24, 9:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNGrant, Owen2 hr
May 25, 8:04 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNPendleton3 hr
May 25, 8:21 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNCarroll6 hr
May 25, 10:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNGallatin, Owen4 hr
May 25, 10:42 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNPendleton3 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.