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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 11, 1996Gallatin County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 1996, 1:20 AM EDT for Gallatin 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, 1:20 AM EDT (05:20 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 1996, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Gallatin County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 330 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

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 10, 8:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 8:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 38 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 47 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, 4 hours 23 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, 2:35 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Hamilton	3 hr
May 11, 2:35 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Clinton, Warren	3 hr
May 11, 5:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Hamilton, Warren	80 min
May 11, 5:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Delaware, Union	6 hr
May 11, 5:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Champaign	6 hr
May 11, 12:52 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Carroll, Owen	3 hr

Nearby

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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.