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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 11, 1996Carroll County, Owen County, Kentucky

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 96 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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
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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 1:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNGallatin3 hr
May 11, 2:35 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNBoone, Kenton3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.