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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 1996, 5:40 AM EDT for Hamilton County, Warren County, Ohio. It was in force for 80 min. 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, 5:40 AM EDT (09:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1996, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 80 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hamilton County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 375 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
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 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 11, 3:08 AM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 3:08 AM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
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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, 5:44 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 |
| May 11, 1:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallatin | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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.