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Flash Flood Warning 68, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1996, 2:13 PM EST for Franklin County, Indiana. It was in force for 4 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, 2:13 PM EST (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1996, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, IN
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 108 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, 2:01 PM EST, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 2:01 PM EST, 12 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 300 PM EDT WED MAY 15 1996 17Z SFC ANALYS HAD WRM FNT ACRS SRN IND TO ARND CVG...INTO ERN KY. AREA RADARS SHWG SHWRS AND TSTMS CONTG ALG AND TO THE N OF FNT WITH PLENTY OF FLOODING PBLMS ACRS NRN KY CNTYS AND PARTS OF FA SRN OH. RADAR ESTIMATES SHWG ANYWHERE FM 2 TO 3 INCHES OF PCPN ACRS THIS AREA SINCE THIS MRNG AND THIS CORRELATES FAIRLY WELL WITH SPOTTER REPORTS. WRM FNT TO PUSH SLOWLY N OVRNGT...REACHING NRN FA BY THUR MRNG AS S/W DROPS DOWN ACRS AREA THIS EVNG. SHUD SEE SCT SHWRS AND TSTMS CONT INTO TNGT AND BASED ON HEAVY PCPN TDA...WL LIKELY NEED FFA FOR NRN KY CNTYS AND PER COORD WITH CLE WL CONT FFA INTO TNGT FOR OH CNTYS. WRM FNT WL MOV N OF FA THRU THUR AFTN AND WITH FA IN WARM SECTOR AND INSTBLTY AXIS XTNDG INTO OH...SHUD SEE SCT TSTMS REDVLP THUR AFTN INTO THUR EVNG. SOME DRYING WORKS INTO THE AREA ON FRI BUT WITH AMS RMNG MARGINALLY UNSTBL WL CONT WNITH CHC POPS FOR FRI AFTN. GOOD WAA CONTG THRU PD AND WITH +15 8H TMPS INTO WRN FA BY FRI...PREFER WRM FWC TMPS FOR HIGHS. CVG 61/82/61/85 6534 CMH 60/80/58/82 6544 DAY 59/80/59/83 6534 LOTT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 12:29 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Franklin | 91 min |
| May 15, 2:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Dearborn | 4 hr |
| May 15, 3:53 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fayette | 4 hr |
| May 15, 5:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Franklin | 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.