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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 1, 1995Grant County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 1995, 9:32 PM EDT for Grant County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 1995, 9:32 PM EDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1995, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Grant County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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-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: 141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 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 020132
FFWILN
KYC081-020600-
 
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
932 PM EDT THU JUN 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 2 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH KENTUCKY
 
   ...GRANT COUNTY
 
HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS GRANT COUNTY THIS EVENING. A LINE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAS DUMPED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN MAINLY ACROSS
THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY SINCE 8 PM. WITH MORE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED...SOME FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND ROADWAYS IS
LIKELY TO OCCUR.
 
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.
 
FARINA

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 Jun 1, 8:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 8:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
812 PM EDT THU JUN 1 1995

RW/TRW ON KILN RDR FILING IN AND MVG ALG TROF ACS OH AND W KY. PRECIP
LINED UP ALL ALG FRNT DOWN INTO TN.  NGM SEEM TO BE PINPOINTING 12Z FOR
BEST LIFT...L3Z ALSO SHWG BEST ACTIVITY MVG IN AFT MIDNITE.

BIG PROB TNT IS WHERE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL FALL...L3Z SEEMS TO PINPOINT
SC OH AND NRN KY AHD OF BNDRY AND THIS IS REASONABLE.  THIS BNDRY HAS
NOT MVD MUCH SINCE I CAME IN AT 4 PM...AND WUD EXPCT IT TO ONLY INCH
EASTWARD IN LIGHT FLOW.

LO IN NRN MO WILL MV EAST ACDG TO MDLS...BRGG IN OVERRUNNING LATE TNT.
THINK GOING FORECAST HNDLS WELL...SOUTHEAST INDIANA AND WEST CENTRAL
OHIO LEAST LIKELY TO GET RAIN WHILE SOUTHCENTRAL AND CENTRAL MOST
LIKELY. LOW TEMPS ALSO LOOK GOOD. WILL NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON WATER
SITUATION IN SC OH WHERE MDLS SEEM TO BRING MOST OF PRECIP. THINK WE
SHOULD BE OK OVERNIGHT W/OUT FLOOD WATCH BUT WILL NOT ARGUE IF CLE
WANTS TO KEEP IT UP. LOEST FFG VALUES OVR NRN KY AND SE IN.

FARINA

FZAK61PAJN/X9FZAK61 PAJN 020014

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 10:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Campbell	3 hr

Nearby

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.