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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 1996, 12:52 AM EDT for Carroll County, Owen 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
- May 11, 1996, 12:52 AM EDT (04:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1996, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, KY, Owen County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:52 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 110453 FFWILN KYC041-187-110800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1252 AM EDT SAT MAY 11 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH KENTUCKY ...CARROLL COUNTY...OWEN COUNTY AT 1245 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN OVER CARROLL AND OWEN COUNTIES WITH RAINFALL RATES UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR. CARROLL COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT HIGHWAY 55 JUST SOUTHWEST OF CARROLLTON CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER AND NUMEROUS OTHER ROADS IN THE THE TOWN OF CARROLLTON FLOODED. RADAR SHOWS MORE HEAVY RAIN HEADED FOR CARROLL AND OWEN COUNTIES THROUGH 4 AM...SO THIS WILL RESULT IN ADDITIONAL FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED... ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. RANDALL &
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 10, 8:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 8:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 840 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 TSTMS HAVE WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY PAST COUPLE OF HRS WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING AND OUTFLOW OUTRUNNG STORMS...CUTTING OFF WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR. BY 10 PM UPDATE DO NOT XPCT MORE THAN WIDELY SCT TSTMS UNTIL FNT COMES THRU. FNT XTNDS FM JUST N OF IND TO JUST S OF TOL AND SCT RW ALONG FNT WITH ISOL TRW BASED SOLELY ON KIND REFLECTIVITY. LDS NOT PICKING UP ANY STRIKES NR FNT IN C IN. WL CHOP N PART OF FF WATCH OUT BUT LEAVE REMAINDER IN CASE RW/TRW INC NEAR AND AHEAD OF FNT...NOT TO MENTION RW- BEHIND FNT. TEMPS WL FALL INTO 50S TNGT WITH LITTLE REBOUND ON SAT AS LOW CLDS AND CAA PERSIST. SALNDLER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 10, 7:33 PM EDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
OHZ025-035-070-052-042-026-044-034-051-061-060-043-024-110130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 733 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF THE MIAMI VALLEY - SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...CONTINUES TO PUSH EAST THIS EVENING. AT 730 PM THE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR CINCINNATI TO COLUMBUS. NORTH AND WEST OF THIS LINE THERE WERE SHOWERS WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS BUT NONE SEVERE...THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN THIS AREA. SOME CITIES WHERE THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED ARE DAYTON... MIDDLETOWN...URBANA...PIQUA AND LIMA. PEOPLE IN jAREAS NEAR AND EAST OF LINE FROM CINCINNATI TO COLUMBUS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS ARE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. SANDLER
Special weather statement, May 10, 8:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
OHZ081-079-053-078-072-046-065-063-055-062-077-080-074-056-054- 064-082-073-088-045-071-KYZ091-097-093-089-090-095-092-100-099- 094-096-201-110300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 857 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWEST - SOUTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL OHIO... A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS WEAKENING CONSIDERABLY AS THE EVENING WEARS ON. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTHERN KENTUCKY...SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL OHIO. SANDLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 1:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallatin | 3 hr |
| May 11, 2:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone, Kenton | 3 hr |
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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.