Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 1996, 3:56 PM EDT for Grant County, Pendleton County, Kentucky. 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
- Apr 29, 1996, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grant County, KY, Pendleton County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -76 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 291955 FFWILN OHC061-KYC037-081-117-191-292300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 356 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST OHIO ...HAMILTON COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY ...CAMPBELL COUNTY...GRANT COUNTY...KENTON COUNTY ...PENDLETON COUNTY AT 355 PM THE WILMINGTON DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN KENTUCKY. THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO AN INCH OF RAINFALL IN LESS THAN A HALF AN HOUR. THE MAIN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CROSS INTERSTATE 75 AROUND 415 PM. THE STORMS CAN PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING BECAUSE THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED IN THESE AREAS...AND THE INTENSITY OF THE RAINFALL WILL BE SO GREAT. THE STORMS WILL PASS THROUGH DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI BY 430 PM. 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 AR:OUND AND TAKE ANOTHER ROUTE. DANGELO
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 Apr 29, 1:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 1:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 155 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996 TRW'S DEVELOPING ACROSS WRN KY AND SRN IN THIS AFTERNOON AND EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WRN OH BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. WITH SUN...AREA IS MORE UNSTABLE THAN MODELS DEPICT. LOOP FROM KLVX INDICATES STORMS MOVING MORE NORTH THAN EAST. MODELS INDICATE UPPER TROF TO DEEPEN WHICH WL MAKE UPPER WINDS BECOME MORE SOUTHERLY AND RAIN MOVE OVER SAME AREAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUS THINK THAT WITH COUNTY FLOOD GUIDANCE IN THE .50 INCHES/HOUR AND CURRENT FLOODING PROBLEMS FLOOD WATCH SHOULD C0NTINUED PER COOORDINATION WITH CLE. CONDITIONS TO BE BECOME STABLE BY 12Z TUE SO CHC RW ONLY LOOKS GOOD FOR TUE AND TUE NIGHT. TEMPS NEARLY STEADY ON TUE WITH CAA AND CLOSE TO MOS ALL PERIODS. SVR TSTM WATCH BOX JUST ISSUED FOR SERN IND...NRN KY...AND SWRN OH. CVG 48/54/40/60 DAY 47/51/39/59 CMH 50/55/37/57 WILKINSON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 2:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA MOST OF SOUTHWESTERN OHIO...AND PARTS OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY... AN AREA OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON. THIS AREA IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY AFTER 300 PM EDT (200 PM EDT). GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL...TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBdLE WITH THESE STORMS. RESIDENTS OF THESE AREAS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE WESTERN SKY AS THESE STORMS MAY APPROACH RAPIDLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. WILKINSON
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 2:59 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
OHZ060>063-070>072-077>080-KYZ089>099-INZ050-058-059-066-073>075- 080-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...RETRANSMITTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 258 PM EDT (158 PM EST) MON APR 29 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA ...MOST OF SOUTHWESTERN OHIO...AND PARTS OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY... AN AREA OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN INDIANA AND NORTH-CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON. THIS AREA IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY AFTER 315 PM EDT (215 PM EST). GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL...TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. RESIDENTS OF THESE AREAS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE WESTERN SKY AS THESE STORMS MAY APPROACH RAPIDLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. WILKINSON ...RETRANSMITTED WITH PROPER HEADING...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 4:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 6 hr |
| Apr 29, 5:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin | 5 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone, Gallatin, Owen | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone, Gallatin | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Campbell, Kenton | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Campbell, Kenton | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 27 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.