Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 74, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1995, 2:55 PM EDT for Preble County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1995, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Preble County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 42 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 161856 RRA FFWILN OHC135-162300- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 255 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO ...PREBLE COUNTY NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DROPPED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN PREBLE COUNTY. WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED OVER 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL ACROSS NORTHERN PREBLE COUNTY BETWEEN 145 PM AND 245 PM. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS LIKELY ACROSS PREBLE COUNTY FROM SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE EVENING. 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. RANDALL f
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 16, 2:05 PM EDT, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:05 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 200 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 1995 ALTO H5 TEMPS WRMD SLGTLY...MSTR INCRSD ACRS LWR PTN OF ATM HS RESULTING VERY UNSTBL ATTM. LTST ADAP SHWS INSTBY AXIS W/ LI/S OF -6 TO -8 THRU WRN OH..WHERE CAP IS LESS THAN 2 DEG. N-W ORIENTED BNDRY ACRS WRN OH ALSO ACTING AS TRIGGER FOR CNVTN. XPCT WDLY SCTD CNVTN TO CONT TO FIRE ACRS DAY...CVG AND CMH AREAS THRU ERLY EVE. HAIL IS PSBL FM THESE STMS TDA W/ FVRBL WBZ HGT. WPAFB HAIL EST. PROGRAM WUD SUGG THAT 50 TO 55 VIL WUD PRODUCE 1 INCH HAIL TDA. ON SAT SRN OH IS IN THE RIGHT REAR QUAD OF UPR JET STREAK DURG AFTN. GRIDDED DATA SHWS CONTD MODERATELY UNSTL ATM AND WITH OLD BNDRY IN AREA PREFER TO PUT MENT OF WDLY SCTD AFTN TSTMS IN FCST FOR SRN OH AND NRN KY. BASED ON PAST HISTORY SEE NO GOOD REASON NOT TO PUT TSTMS IN FCST. TEMP WISE...MOS CLOSE TNGT...BUT PREFER READINGS CLOSE TO WRMR FWC NUMBERS FOR HI/S SAT AND SUN. CVG 61/88/63/89 332 DAY 60/88/62/88 332 CMH 60/87/61/88 322 RANDALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 42 min |
| Jun 16, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 28 min |
| Jun 16, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 39 min |
| Jun 16, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 51 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.