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Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 3, 1995Licking County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1995, 1:46 PM EDT for Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1995, 1:46 PM EDT (17:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1995, 3:52 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Licking County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 1995-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 579 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 1995-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 031745
FFWILN
OHC089-032100-
 
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
146 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
 
   ...LICKING COUNTY
 
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED HEAVY RAINS ACROSS LICKING COUNTY.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW UP TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS
WESTERN LICKING COUNTY IN THE PAST HOUR. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ON
US ROUTE 40 NEAR ETNA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA
THROUGH 4 PM WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALIZED FLOODING LIKELY.
 
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.
 
LOTT
 
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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 Jun 3, 10:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 10:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 31 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 5:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNHamilton3 hr
Jun 3, 1:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNFranklin2 hr
Jun 3, 2:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNFairfield2 hr
Jun 3, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLogan33 min
Jun 3, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield, Hocking40 min
Jun 3, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin33 min
Jun 3, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDelaware35 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1995Every 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.