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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 20, 1995Fayette County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 1995, 3:25 PM EST for Fayette County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1995, 3:25 PM EST (20:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 1995, 6:30 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Fayette County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 1995-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2189 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 1995-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2189 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
977 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 202024
FFWILN
INC041-202330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
425 PM EDT (325 PM EST) TUE JUN 20 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT (630 PM EST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...FAYETTE COUNTY
 
 
 
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.
 
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 20, 1:45 PM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 1:45 PM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
230 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 1995

TEMPS SOARING THIS AFT...PAST CONV TEMP IN DAY AND CLOSE IN CMH.
BNDRY SHWG UP ON RDR...JUST ISSUED SVR ON THAT BNDRY. NO TIME FOR
REST OF AFD. THO FWC TEMPS LOOK FEW DEGS LO.

FARINA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 1:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin, Union46 min
Jun 20, 1:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette68 min
Jun 20, 1:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Union63 min
Jun 20, 2:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin38 min
Jun 20, 2:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette34 min
Jun 20, 3:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWayne50 min
Jun 20, 3:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette42 min
Jun 20, 3:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin67 min
Jun 20, 4:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRipley55 min
Jun 20, 4:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn46 min
Jun 20, 4:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn, Franklin, Ripley67 min
Jun 20, 5:21 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNDearborn, Franklin, Ripley4 hr
Jun 20, 5:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn, Franklin64 min
Jun 20, 6:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRipley52 min
Jun 20, 6:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNUnion45 min
Jun 20, 6:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin62 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.