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Flash Flood Warning 99, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 25, 1995Union County, Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1995-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 915 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMiami54 min
Jun 26, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke, Mercer50 min
Jun 26, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNShelby58 min
Jun 26, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMercer68 min
Jun 26, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNVan Wert51 min
Jun 26, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMiami40 min
Jun 26, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClark, Greene55 min
Jun 26, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNChampaign40 min

Nearby

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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.