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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 4, 1996, 1:35 PM EST for Fayette County, Franklin County, Indiana. It was in force for 2 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
- May 4, 1996, 1:35 PM EST (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1996, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 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 May 4, 12:57 PM EST, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 12:57 PM EST, 38 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 155 PM EDT SAT MAY 4 1996 PROBLEMS OF DAY ARE FLOODING AND POSSIBLE SVR WX. WESTERN OHIO...SERN IND...AND NRN KY CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE HEAVY RAINFALL OVR SAME AREAS THAT RECEIVED IT LAST NIGHT AND DAYS BEFORE THAT. FAST FLOW CONTINUES WITH S/WVS KICKING OFF MCS'S EVERY FEW HOURS. MODELS KEEP THE SAME PATTERN OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS WITH FNT FLUCTUATING OVR CNTRL AND SRN OH WITH EACH SYSTEM THAT PASSES. WL NOT ATTEMPT TO TIME SYSTEMS AS ONE COULD FIRE ANYTIME. HOWEVER...BEST SETUPS ON THE MODELS ARE THROUGH 00Z TONIGHT AND BETWEEN 18Z SUN AND 00Z MON. MON MAY BE NICE AS HIGH PRESSURE AND STABLE CONDTIONS BUILD IN...BUJT RAIN MAY RETURN FOR TUES. WL RAISE TEMPS FOR SUN SIMILAR TO TODAY...OTHERWISE FOLLOWED MOS. CVG 57/75/54/68 6640 DAY 54/67/50/66 6640 CMH 54/70/51/66 6640 WILKINSON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 4, 12:04 PM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
OHZ042-051-060-061-070-071-077-078-KYZ089>096-INZ050-058-059- 066-073>075-080-042300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 104 PM EST SAT MAY 4 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT (6 PM EST) FOR PARTS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OHIO...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA... THE STORMS PREDICTION CENTER IN KANSAS CITY...MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 PM EDT (6 PM EST) FOR SECTIONS OF SOUTHERN AND WESTERN OHIO...EASTERN INDIANA...AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY. AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. WITH WARM AND HUMID AIR MOVING INTO THE OHIO VALLEY AND A STATIONARY FRONT DRAPED ACROSS THE REGION...THE CONDITIONS ARE SETTING UP FOR THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INDICATES THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMANGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA: CINCINNATI...DAYTON...RICHMOND AND DRY RIDGE KELLS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 11:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 67 min |
| May 3, 11:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 67 min |
| May 3, 11:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 60 min |
| May 3, 11:52 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Brown, Clermont | 2 hr |
| May 4, 12:22 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Scioto | 53 min |
| May 4, 12:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Scioto | 53 min |
| May 4, 12:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams | 3 hr |
| May 4, 2:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Clinton | 50 min |
| May 4, 2:23 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Preble | 3 hr |
| May 4, 2:39 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| May 4, 3:39 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams | 3 hr |
| May 4, 12:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Darke, Miami, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| May 4, 12:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Greene | 4 hr |
| May 4, 12:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Preble | 4 hr |
| May 4, 2:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 53 min |
| May 4, 2:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 32 min |
| May 4, 2:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 25 min |
| May 4, 2:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Warren | 21 min |
| May 4, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 29 min |
| May 4, 2:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams | 3 hr |
| May 4, 2:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 27 min |
| May 4, 2:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 48 min |
| May 4, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 66 min |
| May 4, 3:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Brown, Clermont, Clinton | 3 hr |
| May 4, 3:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler, Hamilton, Warren | 3 hr |
| May 4, 3:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Ross | 47 min |
| May 4, 3:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 26 min |
| May 4, 3:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 37 min |
| May 4, 4:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Scioto | 64 min |
| May 4, 4:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Scioto | 47 min |
| May 4, 5:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams | 2 hr |
| May 4, 6:41 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Pike | 2 hr |
| May 3, 10:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Carroll | 3 hr |
| May 3, 10:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen | 67 min |
| May 3, 10:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone | 3 hr |
| May 3, 10:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Kenton | 3 hr |
| May 3, 11:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 60 min |
| May 3, 11:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Robertson | 70 min |
| May 3, 11:48 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Bracken | 117 min |
| May 4, 2:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Campbell, Kenton | 32 min |
| May 4, 2:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone, Gallatin | 31 min |
| May 4, 2:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant | 51 min |
| May 4, 3:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 54 min |
| May 4, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Robertson | 51 min |
| May 4, 4:05 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant, Pendleton | 3 hr |
| May 4, 4:05 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Bracken, Lewis, Mason, Robertson | 3 hr |
| May 4, 4:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 28 min |
| May 3, 9:29 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ohio, Switzerland | 61 min |
| May 3, 10:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ohio | 3 hr |
| May 4, 1:35 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fayette | 3 hr |
| May 4, 2:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 10 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.