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Flash Flood Warning 78, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 20, 1995Butler County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 1995, 7:11 PM EDT for Butler County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 1995, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1995, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Butler County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 61 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: 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 202311
FFWILN
OHC017-210200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
711 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO
 
   ...BUTLER COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT BETWEEN 3 AND 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
OVER BUTLER COUNTY BETWEEN 4 AND 7 PM EDT.
 
REMEMBER THAT MOST FLOOD DEATHS ARE THE RESULT OF EITHER DRIVING
INTO FLOOD WATERS OR CHILDREN PLAYING IN FLOODED AREAS. NEVER DRIVE
INTO FLOODED ROADWAYS. THE WATER LEVEL MAY BE MUCH DEEPER THAN YOU
THINK...OR THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT COMPLETELY.< DO NOT LET YOUR
CHILDREN PLAY NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES OR STREAMS.
 
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, 2:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 26 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark	45 min
Jun 20, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark	46 min
Jun 20, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami	59 min
Jun 20, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Logan	48 min
Jun 20, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	46 min
Jun 20, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	48 min
Jun 20, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	64 min

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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.