Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 111, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Dec 1, 1996, 1:23 AM EST for Carroll County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 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
- Dec 1, 1996, 1:23 AM EST (06:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 1, 1996, 5:15 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Nov 30, 8:42 PM EST, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 30, 8:42 PM EST, 4 hours 41 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 840 PM EST SAT NOV 30 1996 LTST SFC ANLYS SHWG LOW PRES OVR LAK SUP WITH CDFNT XTNDG DOWN THRU WI INTO SRN IL. WAA CONTG ACRS FA WITH MAINLY CLDS AND SOME DZ/-RA SO FAR THIS EVNG. XTRM SE FA NEAR PRT HAS SEEN A LTL MORE PCPN BUT AMTS HAV STILL BEEN ON LGT SIDE. SAT PIX/AREA RADARS INDCTG TWO AREAS OF PCPN. FIRST AREA OF PCPN ASCTD WITH S/W MOVG THRU TN VLY ATTM SHUD GNRLY RMN S AND E OF FA THO WL LIKELY BRUSH ACRS XTRM SE FA THRU MDNGT. OTHER AREA OF PCPN ACRS SW IND/WRN KY/SRN IL WL CONT TO PUSH NE OVRNGT AS STG S/W OVR MS VLY LIFTS NE. THIS PCPN WL OVRSPRD FA FM THE SW TWD MDNGT AND CONT OVRNGT. WITH PW/S XCDG 1.0 OVRNGT ACRS S WL HAV TO CONT TO WATCH FOR FLOODING AS ONE HR FFG ARND 1/2 INCH MOST PLACES. AREA OF MOST CONCERN ACRS SE FA WHERE BEST UPR LVL DIVG/LLVL CONV PROGD OVRNGT AND MAY NEED TO GO WITH FFA FOR PRT AREA. LDS NOT SHWG MUCH TO THE SW ATTM BUT WITH 0STG UVV OVRNGT AND THETA-E AXIS XTNDG INTO SRN FA OVRNGT ALG WITH LI/S APRCHG ZERO...MAY STILL SEE A FEW TSTMS OVRNGT...MAINLY ACRS SRN PRTNS OF FA. TMPS SHUD CONT TO HOLD NEARLY STEADY OVRNGT... RANGING FM UPR 40S N TO LWR 50S S. LOTT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 1:07 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 4 hr |
| Dec 1, 1:23 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler | 4 hr |
| Dec 1, 1:43 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont | 4 hr |
| Dec 1, 1:07 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ripley | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1996Every 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.