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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 4, 1996Fayette County, Franklin County, Indiana

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 11:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams67 min
May 3, 11:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont67 min
May 3, 11:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown60 min
May 3, 11:52 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNBrown, Clermont2 hr
May 4, 12:22 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNScioto53 min
May 4, 12:22 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNScioto53 min
May 4, 12:42 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNAdams3 hr
May 4, 2:10 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont, Clinton50 min
May 4, 2:23 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNPreble3 hr
May 4, 2:39 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNMontgomery3 hr
May 4, 3:39 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNAdams3 hr
May 4, 12:50 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNChampaign, Clark, Darke, Miami, Montgomery4 hr
May 4, 12:50 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNGreene4 hr
May 4, 12:50 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNPreble4 hr
May 4, 2:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams53 min
May 4, 2:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHamilton32 min
May 4, 2:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHighland25 min
May 4, 2:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont, Warren21 min
May 4, 2:31 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPike, Scioto29 min
May 4, 2:37 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNAdams3 hr
May 4, 2:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton27 min
May 4, 2:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPike, Scioto48 min
May 4, 3:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHighland66 min
May 4, 3:15 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNBrown, Clermont, Clinton3 hr
May 4, 3:15 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNButler, Hamilton, Warren3 hr
May 4, 3:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPike, Ross47 min
May 4, 3:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown26 min
May 4, 3:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams37 min
May 4, 4:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNScioto64 min
May 4, 4:28 PM ESTTornado WarningILNScioto47 min
May 4, 5:58 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNAdams2 hr
May 4, 6:41 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNPike2 hr
May 3, 10:27 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNCarroll3 hr
May 3, 10:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGrant, Owen67 min
May 3, 10:44 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNBoone3 hr
May 3, 10:58 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNKenton3 hr
May 3, 11:15 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNPendleton60 min
May 3, 11:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken, Robertson70 min
May 3, 11:48 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNBracken117 min
May 4, 2:28 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCampbell, Kenton32 min
May 4, 2:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBoone, Gallatin31 min
May 4, 2:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGrant51 min
May 4, 3:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPendleton54 min
May 4, 3:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken, Robertson51 min
May 4, 4:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNGrant, Pendleton3 hr
May 4, 4:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNBracken, Lewis, Mason, Robertson3 hr
May 4, 4:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis28 min
May 3, 9:29 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNOhio, Switzerland61 min
May 3, 10:27 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNDearborn, Ohio3 hr
May 4, 1:35 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNFayette3 hr
May 4, 2:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNSwitzerland10 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.