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Flash Flood Warning 102, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 19, 1996Clermont County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1996, 8:23 AM EDT for Clermont County, Ohio. It was in force for 37 min. 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 19, 1996, 8:23 AM EDT (12:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 1996, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Clermont County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:26 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 378 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1573 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.1
Supercell composite: 10.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 6:38 PM EDT, 13 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 6:38 PM EDT, 13 hours 45 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 8:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Highland	28 min
Jul 19, 8:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	37 min
Jul 19, 9:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Lewis	45 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.