Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 99, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 1995, 8:59 PM EDT for Union County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1995, 8:59 PM EDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1995, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1282 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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 KILN 260100 FFWILN OHC159-260400- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 859 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...UNION COUNTY VERY SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS UNION COUNTY...BRINGING TORRENTIAL RAINS. DOPPLER RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES INDICATE BETWEEN 2.00 AND 2.50 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS CENTRAL UNION COUNTY...5 MILES NORTH OF MARYSVILLE BETWEEN 745 AND 845 PM EDT. THIS PERSIST SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO BRING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN UNION COUNTY THROUGH 1000 PM...LIKELY CAUSING FLOODING OF STREAMS AND CREEKS. 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. HYSELL
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 25, 8:29 PM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 8:29 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 829 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 1995 QTN TNGT IS HOW LONG PCPN WILL HANG ARND. KILN 88D CONTINUES TO INDC TRW ACRS MAINLY WC/C OH. 1 MB SFC ANLYS INC 2 DISTINCT...BUT WK BNDRIES IN NW OH AND ANOTHER RUNNING E-W ACRS CNTRL OH. 88D HAS SHOWN A LTL WEAKENING BUT FEEL SOME MENTION OF TRW/RW MAY NEED TO LEFT IN WC AND CNTRL OH ZNS PERHAPS THRU MID...BUT RADAR TRENDS WILL HV TO BE WATCHED RIGHT BEFORE ZN ISSUANCE. TEMPS LOOK ON TARGET. WV SAT PIX SHOWS CLEARLY DEFINED VORT MAX IN S MO...MODELS IN GENERAL AGRMENT IN PUSHING THIS FEATURE INTO OH VALLEY FOR MONDAY. WITH ALREADY DESCENT INSTABILITY IN PLACE...ADDED DYNAMICS WILL LIKELY BRING GOOD SHOT OF TRW...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SVR. ETA GRIDDED DATA INDC BEST LLJ (30 KNTS) AND LOWEST LI/S IN N KY/S OH...AS WELL AS SOME DESCENT 30H DIFLNCE. AT LEAST TSTMS MON SHOULD MOVE FASTER THAN PAST COUPLE OF DAYS AS WIND FIELDS INCR. W/ UPPER LOW TO MOVE OVER RGN...TEMPS SHOULD BE COOLER MONDAY...BUT FAN NMBRS SEEM A LTL EXTREME AND PERFERED FWC NMBRS...WHICH CRNT FCST HAS GOOD HANDLE ON. HYSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke, Mercer | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 68 min |
| Jun 26, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Van Wert | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Greene | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign | 40 min |
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.