Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 101, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 1996, 9:10 AM EDT for Allen County, Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1996, 9:10 AM EDT (13:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1996, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allen County, OH, Van Wert County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 706 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 181311 FFWILN OHC003-161-181615- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 910 AM EDT THU JUL 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO ...ALLEN COUNTY...VAN WERT COUNTY AT 910 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATED THAT OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVERNIGHT IN MUCH OF ALLEN AND VAN WERT COUNTIES. ALTHOUGH PRECIPITATION HAD TAPERED OFF SLIGHTLY AFTER SUNRISE....ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THESE COUNTIES LATER THIS MORNING AND POSSIBLY INTO THIS AFTERNOON. NEVER DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO A FLOODED ROADWAY. YOU CAN EASILY BECOME STRANDED OR TRAPPED. THE DEPTH OF WATER IS NOT ALWAYS OBVIOUS. IF YOU ARE UNSURE ABOUT THE ROAD CONDITION OR THE WATER LEVEL AHEAD OF YOU...TURN AROUND AND TAKE ANOTHER ROUTE. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES. DIAN
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 Jul 18, 2:43 AM EDT, 6 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 2:43 AM EDT, 6 hours 27 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 245 AM EDT THU JUL 18 1996 WX PROB THIS RUN IS TIMING OF CNVCTN. LTST SFC MAP HAS WRMFNT FM IA SE THRU CNTRL IN INTO W CNTRL OH. 40KT SWRLY H8 JET PUNCHING ACRS THIS FNTL BNDRY IN NRN IL SETTING OFF MCC DVLPMNT. FIRST MCC FOLLOWING 1000/500 THCKNS LINES SE INTO WRN OH...WITH A SECOND MCC DVLPG OVR NRN IL. XPCT TO SEE CONTD ACTVTY THRU ERLY MRNG IN WRN OH...WITH A MINOR LULL IN ACTION WITH AMS RELOADING THRU ABT MID AFTN AND THEN AN ENCHANCED CHC OF TSTMS FM MID AFTN THRU EVE WITH NXT SIG S/WV MOVG FM NRN PLNS INTO WRN GRTLKS. H8 35 KT SWLY JET PUNCHING INTO WRN OH BY 00Z...WITH GOOD H7 DRYING EVIDENT. DWPTS IN EXCESS OF 70 DEG IN PLACE...INSTBY WL INCRS WITH MID LVL DRYING. THESE STMS WL HV PTNL TO PRODUCE DMMG WNDS. WL ISSUE SPS HIGHLIGHTING THIS SVR-WX PNTL. XPCT ANOTHER LULL IN TSTM ACTVTY LT TNGT INTO ERLY FRI OVR SRN OH WITH ANOTHER ENCHANCED CHC FRI AFTN AS FNT DROPS S INTO OH VLY. TEMP WISE...HV GNRLY GONE WITH OR SLGTLY ABV WRMR FWC GUID THRU PD. CVG 90/74/91/67/84 545 DAY 89/72/88/65/83 756 CMH 90/73/89/66/83 766 RANDALL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:03 AM EDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
INZ050-058-059-066-180900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 402 AM EDT (300 AM EST) THU JUL 18 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR FOR THE WHITEWATER VALLEY HAS EXPIRED... THE STORNGEST STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTHEAST OF THE WHITEWATER VALLEY AND HAVE WEAKENED. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. RANDALL
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 6:21 AM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
OHZ015-016-024>026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088- INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-181800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 620 AM EDT THU JUL 18 1996 ...WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS INDICATED A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN INDIANA ...WEST CENTRAL OHIO...THE MIAMI VALLEY...AND CENTRAL OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SOME CITIES IN THE MODERATE RISK INCLUDE...DAYTON... RICHMOND...LIMA...SPRINGFIELD AND COLUMBUS. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS BEEN FORECAST OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST INDIANA... NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND EXTREME SOUTHERN OHIO...INCLUDING THE CINCINNATI AND PORTSMOUTH AREAS. VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR IS IN PLACE OVER MUCH OF THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY THIS MORNING. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES BY THIS EVENING. A WARM FRONT WILL EXTEND EAST SOUTHEAST FROM THE LOW ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE GREAT LAKES BY THIS AFTERNOON. STORMS WILL INITIALLY DEVELOP IN THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AREA AND MOVE RAPIDLY EAST AND SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE LOWER GREAT LAKES AND INTO THE OHIO VALLEY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. WHILE THE PRIMARY CONCERN WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...A FEW TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS ALSO FAVORS THE OCCURRENCE OF SOME LARGE HAIL. THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SOME PARTICULARLY DAMAGING WIND EVENTS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PERSONS IN THE AFFECTED AREA SHOULD MONITOR LOCAL FORECASTS AND WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER AS A SEVERE STORMS APPROACHES. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV AND MONITOR THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR THESE STORMS. RANDALL
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.