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Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 3, 1995Franklin County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1995, 1:29 PM EDT for Franklin County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 1995, 1:29 PM EDT (17:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1995, 3:52 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 579 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 031728
FFWILN
OHC049-032100-
 
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
129 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 5 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 120 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN HAD
FALLEN ACROSS FRANKLIN COUNTY. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED
ACROSS AREAS WEST OF COLUMBUS AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER FRANKLIN
COUNTY THROUGH 5 PM.
 
WATER WAS COVERING MORRIS ROAD NEAR INTERSTATE 71.  SMALL HAIL WILL ALSO
OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON ALONG WITH DEADLY LIGHTNING.
 
NEVER DRIVE YOUR, CAR INTO A FLOODED ROADWAY. YOU CAN EASILY
BECOME STRANDED OR TRAPPED. THE DEPTH OF WATER IS NOT ALWAYS
OBVIOUS. IF YOU ARE UNSURE ABOUT THE ROAD CONDITION OR THE WATER
LEVEL AHEAD OF YOU...TURN AROUND AND TAKE ANOTHER ROUTE.
 
SANDLER

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 3, 10:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 10:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1010 AM EDT SAT JUN 3 1995

DID SOUNDING MODIFICATIONS AS DID CLE FCSTR WITH THE SAME RESULTS.
MODERATE INSTAB PRESENT AS TROF MOVE THRU THIS AFT.  PCPT H20 STILL
HIGH SO EFFICIENT SOAKERS WITH SCT TSTMS...MAY EVEN BECOME MORE NUMEROUS
FM AROUND CMH EASTWARD AS NEW ETA SHOWS VORT MAX MOVG ACROSS THIS AREA
DURG EARLY AFT.  VORT MAX PROGGED TO NR PIT BY 00Z SUN.

FLOODING STILL A CONCERN ON A COUNTY-WIDE BASIS...PARTS OF N KY AND
SW OH HAVE ALREADY BEEN HIT HARD LAST FEW DAYS SO WL KEEP CLOSE EYE
ON THOSE AREAS THIS AFT.  TRW ACTIVITY SHOULD END THIS EVE ESP IN
W AS SFC FNT FINALLY COMES THRU WITH DRIER AIR.  BETTER WX FOR SUNDAY.

SANDLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 5:08 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Hamilton	3 hr
Jun 3, 1:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Licking	2 hr
Jun 3, 2:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Fairfield	2 hr
Jun 3, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Logan	33 min
Jun 3, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking	40 min
Jun 3, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	33 min
Jun 3, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	35 min

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.