Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1995, 2:50 PM EDT for Darke County, Miami County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1995, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Darke County, OH, Miami County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 839 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 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 KCVG 241907 COR FFWILN OHC037-109-242200- BULLETIN...CORRECTION... FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 307 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO ...DARKE COUNTY...MIAMI COUNTY AT 245 PM EDT WILMINGTON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL DARKE AND MIAMI COUNTIES...FROM NEAR PIQUA TO CASTINE IN SOUTHCENTRAL DARKE COUNTY...HAVE DEPOSITED 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 145 AND 245 PM EDT. ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL...THAT COULD HAVE AMOUNTED TO 1 TO 1.5 INCHESP...HAS FALLEN OVER AN AREA IN CENTRAL DARKE COUNTY. THIS RAINFALL ALSO HAPPENED BETWEEN 145 AND 245 PM. AS MORE RAINFALL IS EXPECTED IN THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...EXPECT SOME ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS TO FLOOD. RAPS DROPPED LAST PARAGRAPH
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 24, 9:42 AM EDT, 5 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 9:42 AM EDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 940 AM EDT SAT JUN 24 1995 WKNG UPR LO OVR OH VLY DRIFTG SLOLY NNWRD TO LWR MI BY THIS EVE WHILE S/WV OVR NRN PLNS DROPS SE INTO MID MS VLY BY SUN EVE. COLDEST TEMPS ALFT OVR OH WL AGN RESULT IN TSTM DVLPMNT ACRS FA TDA. MODIFIED DAY SOUNDING USING MAX TEMP CONSERVATIVE 84 AND DWPT OF 65 YIELDS LI/S -6...AND CAPE ARND 2300 J/KG. WBZ HGT SIM TO YDA AT 10600 FT AGN INDICATES PTNL FOR A TDA. LTST SFC ANLYS SHWS E-W ORIENTED TROF AXIS ACRS OH VLY. CAP IS LWR TDA SO XPCT CNVTN TO DVLP EARLIER TDA. WK WND PROFILE WUD AGN SUGG PULSE TYPE STMS AGN TDA. MODIFED VIL OF THE DAY MACRO SUGG THAT VIL OF THE DAY WUD BE BTWN 50 AND 55 KG/M2. BASED ON YDA/S OBSVD VILS AND A REPORTS THESE VALUES APR TO BE IN THE BALLPARK. GUID TEMPS...A LTL LO ON MAXES...AS AIR MASS IS REL UNCHND AND EVEN WITH CNVTN STIL SHUD BE ENOUGH SS TO REACH MID 80S ACRS CNTRL AND SRN OH. CVG 86/66/85 734 DAY 85/65/84 634 CMH 85/65/84 635 RANDALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 5:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 7:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fayette | 106 min |
| Jun 24, 7:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Franklin | 2 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.