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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 25, 1995Ohio County, Indiana; Boone County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1995, 10:01 AM EDT for Ohio County, Indiana; Boone County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 1995, 10:01 AM EDT (14:01 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 1995, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Ohio County, IN, Boone County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILN 251404
FFWILN
INC115-KYC015-077-187-251800-
 
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1001 AM EDT (901 AM EST) THU MAY 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM
EDT (100 PM EST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...OHIO COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTH KENTUCKY
 
   ...BOONE COUNTY...GALLATIN COUNTY...OWEN COUNTY
 
AT 1000 AM EDT (900 AM EST)...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATED FROM 0.50
TO 1.25 INCHES HAD FALLEN SINCE 700 AM EDT OVER ALREADY SATURATED SOILS
IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST INDIANA. BOONE COUNTY
OFFICIALS REPORTED WATER WAS CREEPING UP ON ROADS AND ROAD CLOSURES
ACROSS THE COUNTY WAS IMMINENT.
 
THESE COUNTIES CAN EXPECT ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...SO
FLOODING PROBLEMS MAY INTENSIFY.
 
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.
 
DIAN
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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 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 8:32 AM EDT, 1 hour 29 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	45 min
May 24, 8:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Owen	41 min
May 24, 9:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Owen	115 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	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 Indiana, 1995 Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1995 Every 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.