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Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 24, 1995Fayette County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1995, 7:14 PM EDT for Fayette County, Ohio. It was in force for 106 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1995, 7:14 PM EDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
106 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Fayette County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 1995-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 438 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 1995-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 242318
FFWILN
OHC047-250100-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
714 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STRAEAMS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN CENTRAL OHIO

   ...FAYETTE COUNTY

AT 713 PM WILMINGTON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN
HAD POSSIBLY FALLEN DUE TO A SERIES OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED THE
AREA TO THE WEST OF WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE FROM 6 PM THROUGH 7 PM.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO ROLL NORTHWARD ACROSS THE COUNTY THROUGH
AT LEAST 8 PM. THEREFORE A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS A&ND SMALL
STREAMS FOR FAYETTE COUNTY HAS BEEN ISSUED. IF YOU DO OBSERVE FLOODING
IN YOUR AREA...BE PREPARED TO MOVE 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 24, 9:42 AM EDT, 9 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 9:42 AM EDT, 9 hours 32 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 2:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNDarke, Miami3 hr
Jun 24, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMiami52 min
Jun 24, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMercer49 min
Jun 24, 5:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNClermont3 hr
Jun 24, 7:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNFranklin2 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.