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Flash Flood Warning 91, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1996, 7:18 PM EST for Ripley County, Indiana. It was in force for 117 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 28, 1996, 7:18 PM EST (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1996, 9:15 PM EST
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ripley County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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, 0.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 290023 FFWILN INC137-290215- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 818 PM EDT (718 PM EST) TUE MAY 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT (915 PM EST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA ...RIPLEY COUNTY AT 715 PM EST (815 PM EDT)...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED FLOODING IN CREEKS ACROSS RIPLEY COUNTY. THEY ALSO REPORTED THAT THE LAUGHERY CREEK IN THE TOWN OF FRIENDSHIP WAS RISING QUICKLY. HEAVY RAINS FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOW EXITING THE COUNTY...SO THE WATER IS EXPECTED TO SUBSIDE QUICKY DURING THE EVENING. 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. KELLS &
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 28, 1:24 PM EST, 5 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 1:24 PM EST, 5 hours 54 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 224 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996 FOCUS OF SVR WX/TRW THREAT WILL BE ACROSS OH RVR REGION THIS EVENING. CAPES FCST TO GO TO 1000 J/KG...VORT ADV/LF QUAD OF JET...PLENTY OF MOIST FOR TRW DVLPMENT. GRIDDED DATA SHWG BEST AT 00Z AT CVG (L2Z FROM NGM CONCURS)...SO MAINLY LOOKING AT AN EVE EVENT IN THE WEST...TNT EVENT ACROSS EAST. MOST OF GOOD DYNAMICS GONE BY 06Z. LOWS TNT SHUD NOT BE TOO FAR FROM CRNT DWPTS. CLOUDS SHUD DOMINATE. CHC OF SHOWERS NEEDED FOR FIRST HALF OF WED AS S/W CROSSES REGION. TEMP WILL NOT RISE MUCH W/ CLDS AND CAA. THINKING MOS STILL TOO HIGH W/ TEMPS AS WINDS REMAIN EASTERLY AND WILL LEAN TWDS CRNT CLE #/S...BUT BUMP THEM UP A TAD. IMPROVING CONDS ON WED NITE AND THU SHUD BE NICE DAY. MOS #/S STILL TOO HI FOR HIGH TEMPS ON THU. HWVR WILL GO CLOSE TO MOS/FAN #/S AS WINDS STAY UP THRU THE NIGHT. CVG 62/68/47/68 DAY 56/64/45/65 CMH 57/64/44/65 FARINA
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 28, 1:46 PM EST, 5 hours 32 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COVINGTON, KY
246 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
1230 PM MAYS LICK KY WIND DAMAGE
5/28/96 MASON BARN DESTROYED AND NUMEROUS
BLOWN DOWN.
KELLSLocal storm report, May 28, 1:50 PM EST, 5 hours 28 minutes before
STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
250 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
1230 PM MAYS LICK KY WIND DAMAGE
5/27/96 MASON BARN DESTROYED AND NUMEROUS
TREES BLOWN DOWN.
KELLS
...CORRECTION TO ADD FOR MISSING DATA AND TO CORRECT DATE OF
OCC$URRENCE...Special weather statement, May 28, 4:10 PM EST, 3 hours 8 minutes before
INDZ050-058-073-290300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 510 PM EDT (410 PM EST) TUE MAY 28 1996 ...TORNDAO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT (1000 PM EST) FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA... THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF WAYNE...FAYETTE AND RIPLEY. AT 5 PM EDT (4 PM EST) A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN INDIANA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PUSH INTO EASTERN INDIANA BETWEEN 7 AND 8 PM EDT (6 AND 7 PM EST). SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF TORNADIC ACTIVITY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RANDALL
Special weather statement, May 28, 4:56 PM EST, 2 hours 22 minutes before
INDZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-OHZ042-051>056-060>065-070>074- OHZ077>082-088-KYZ089>100-290200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 555 PM EDT (455 PM EST) TUE MAY 28 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST OHIO EARLY THIS EVENING... AT 550 PM (450 PM EST) A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS PUSHING EAST INTO CENTRAL INDIANA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PUSH INTO EASTERN INDIANA BETWEEN 630 AND 7 PM EDT (530 AND 6 PM EST) AND INTO SOUTHWEST OHIO AND NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...INCLUDING THE CINCINNATI METRO AREA AROUND 7 PM EDT. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF TORNADIC ACTIVITY .IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. IF YOU ARE IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA...SOUTHWEST OHIO...OR NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...YOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RANDALL
Special weather statement, May 28, 5:51 PM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
INDZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-OHZ060>065-070>074-OHZ077>082- OHZ088-KYZ089>100-290600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 650 PM EDT (550 PM EST) TUE MAY 28 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1 AM EDT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN INDIANA... SOUTHWEST OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY...CENTRAL OHIO AND SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO... ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11 PM EDT FOR WAYNE...FAYETTE AND RIPLEY COUNTIES IN EASTERN INDIANA... AT 640 PM (540 PM EST) AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS PUSHING INTO EASTERN INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PUSH INTO SOUTHEAST INDIANA BETWEEN 700 AND 730 PM EDT AND INTO SOUTHWEST OHIO AND NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...INCLUDING THE CINCINNATI METRO BY 8 PM. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF TORNADIC ACTIVITY IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL HAVE BEEN RECIEVED FROM THESE STORMS. SOME OF THE HAIL HAS BEEN AS LARGE AS BASEBALL SIZE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION! IF YOU ARE IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA... SOUTHERN OHIO...OR NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...YOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RANDALL
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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.