Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 88, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1995, 4:03 PM EDT for Bracken County, Robertson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1995, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1995, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bracken County, KY, Robertson County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 222007 FFWILN KYC023-201-230000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 403 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH KENTUCKY ...BRACKEN COUNTY...ROBERTSON COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR IN WILMINGTON INDICATED THAT UP TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN BETWEEN 3 PM AND 4 PM EDT. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL LOOKS TO BE JUST TO THE SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF MILFORD IN SOUTHERN BRACKEN COUNTY. THESE AREAS ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REST OF THIS EVENING. FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG ROADWAYS AND SMALLER STREAM AVOID CROSSING FLOWING WATER...EITHER IN YOUR CAR OR ON FOOT. THE SWIFT CURRENT CAN SWEEP YOU OFF YOUR FEET OR CARRY YOUR CAR AWAY. STAY AWAY FROM DRAINS...DITCHES...AND LOW SPOTS. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER...MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. DANGELO
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 22, 9:55 AM EDT, 6 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 9:55 AM EDT, 6 hours 8 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 955 AM EDT THU JUN 22 1995 UPR LO OVR EXTR WRN NC MOVS SLOLY NWRD INTO SRN WV THRU PD...WHILE UPR RDG AXIS REMAINS POISED TO OUR W FM SRN PLNS THRU GRTLKS. MRNG SOUNDING AT DAY SHWS LI OF -2 SLGTLY MORE STBL THAN YDA. HOWEVER...WNDS BACK SLGTLY BTWN H7 AND H5 INDICATING SOME CAA ALFT. LOOKING TO EAST AT MRNG SOUNDINGS OVR PIT AND HTS WUD XPCT SOME SLGT COOLING ALFT TDA. LTST SFC ANLYS SHWS BACK DOOR FNT ACRS SRN GRTLKS THRU NRN OH...WITH TROF AXIS ACRS SRN OH...A BNDRY FM NE OH THRU W CNTRL OH AND ANOTHER DISTINCT BNDRY ACRS CNTRL IN. ALSO HV DWPT POOLING WI 65+ DWPTS ACRS SE INTO N CNTRL OH. XPCT FOG ACRS SRN OH TO BURN OFF GIVING WAY TO HAZY SS. WITH INSTBY AXIS ACRS SRN OH AND NUMEROUS CNVTV BNDRYS ACRS AREA XPCT TSTMS TO DVLP AGN TDA. THETA E RDG AXIS RMNS ACRS SRN OH...AND WI REL HI PRECIP WATER VALUES XPCT TO SEE SOME HVY RAINERS AGN TDA. WK SHEAR PROFILE...XPCT PULSE TYPE STMS AGN WITH LRG A PSBL WITH WBZ HGT OF 10600 FT AT DAY. TEMP WISE...BASED ON PARTIAL SS AND H85 TEMPS GOING FCST OF A COUPLE DEG COOLER THAN YDA/S HI/S LOOKS GOOD. CVG 86/65/85 434 DAY 86/64/84 434 CMH 87/63/84 434 RANDALL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:32 AM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
OHZ015-016-024>026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082- 086-KYZ089>100-INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-222000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTS DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1132 AM EDT THU JUN 22 1995 THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY INDICATES THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA...WEST CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE RISK AREA INCLUDES THE CITIES OF CINCINNATI...DAYTON...COLUMBUS AND CHILLICOTHE. THE COMBINATION OF MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE REGION. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE AND/OR LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM THESE STORMS. THEREFORE... SKYWARN AND HAM RADIO NETS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED THIS AFTERNOON. RANDALL
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:33 AM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
OHZ015-016-024>026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082- 086-KYZ089>100-INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-222000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1132 AM EDT WED JUN 21 1995 THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY INDICATES THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA...WEST CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE RISK AREA INCLUDES THE CITIES OF CINCINNATI...DAYTON...COLUMBUS AND CHILLICOTHE. THE COMBINATION OF MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE REGION. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE AND/OR LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM THESE STORMS. THEREFORE... SKYWARN AND HAM RADIO NETS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED THIS AFTERNOON. RANDALL
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:39 AM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
OHZ015-016-024>026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082- 086-KYZ089>100-INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-222000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTS DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1132 AM EDT THU JUN 22 1995 THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY INDICATES THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA...WEST CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE RISK AREA INCLUDES THE CITIES OF CINCINNATI...DAYTON...COLUMBUS AND CHILLICOTHE. THE COMBINATION OF MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE REGION. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE AND/OR LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM THESE STORMS. THEREFORE... SKYWARN AND HAM RADIO NETS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED THIS AFTERNOON. RANDALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone, Gallatin | 67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.