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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1996, 1:22 PM EDT for Adams County, Ohio. 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 15, 1996, 1:22 PM EDT (17:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1996, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 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 15, 9:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 9:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 950 AM EDT WED MAY 15 1996 LTST SFC ANALYS SHWG TROF ACRS SRN IND INTO NRN KY. GOOD WAA AND LLVL MSTR CONV ACRS FA THIS MRNG AS 40 KT 8H JET PUSHES INTO AREA. KILN-88D SHWG GOOD AMT OF PCPN OVRSPDG MOST OF FA ATTM. HVYST RAIN...ALG WITH SCT TSTMS...HAS MOVD INTO SW FA. TSTMS HAV MAINLY BEEN PRDCG HVY RAIN WITH RADAR ESTIMATES OF ARND 1 INCH ACRS NRN KY CNTYS PAST HR. HAV ALSO HAD A REPORT OF PEA SIZE HAIL ABT 15 MINUTES AGO IN CARROLL CNTY KY. RAIN SHUD CONT TO PUSH E ACRS FA THRU THE ERLY AFTN HRS WITH PDS OF HVY RAIN PSBL. BASED ON THIS... FFA FOR SRN OH TDA STILL LUKS RSBL. SHUD SEE DCRS IN PCPN BY LATE THIS AFTN AS BESTR LLVL CONV AND UPR LVL DIVG SHIFTS E OF FA. WITH CLDS AND PCPN...CRNT TMPS ONLY RANGING FM THE UPR 40S N TO LOW AND MID 50S S. EVEN WITH WAA THRU THIS AFTN...FEEL TMPS MAY NEED TO BE ADJUSTED DOWN SLIGHTLY...ESPCLY ACRS S. LOTT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler | 3 hr |
| May 15, 2:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams | 87 min |
| May 15, 3:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Scioto | 5 hr |
| May 15, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams | 4 hr |
| May 15, 5:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont | 3 hr |
| May 15, 6:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 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.