Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 93, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 1996, 3:05 AM EDT for Franklin 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 29, 1996, 3:05 AM EDT (07:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1996, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 290705 FFWILN OHC049-291000- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 305 AM EDT WED MAY 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...FRANKLIN COUNTY BETWEEN 200 AND AT 300 AM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS ESTIMATING UP TO 1.0 INCH OF RAINFALL OVER GROVE CITY AND THE SOUTHWEST COLUMBUS SUBURBS. THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO OVERSPREAD THE CITY OF COLUMBUS THROUGH 6 AM. STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED THIS MORNING ACROSS FRANKLIN COUNTY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. 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. RANDALL
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 29, 2:52 AM EDT, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 2:52 AM EDT, 13 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 250 AM EDT WED MAY 29 1996 SFC LO LOCATED OVR N KY...BUT RW/TRW OVR FCST AREA ASSOCIATED WITH SLO MOVG MID/UPR LVL VORTMX...NOW CNTRD INVOF NE IN. TSTMS CLOSE TO THIS FEATURE HAVE BEEN ROTATING OVR SAME AREAS JUST W OF CWA... FLOODING IN ADAMS COUNTY IN WITH 3 HR RAFL AMTS UP TO 2 INCHES PER CALL FROM FWA. THIS AREA SHUD MOVE SLOWLY E AND WL HAVE TO BE MONITORED FOR PSBL FLOODING IN FAR N COUNTIES...ESP VAN WERT... PAULDING...PUTNAM...ALLEN AND HARDIN...THRU EARLY AM HRS. FARTHER S/E...BANDS OF RW/TRW DEVELOPING AND MOVG ENE THRU FCST AREA. FAVORED AREA FOR CONT RW/TRW DEVELOPMNT WL SHIFT E THIS AM AS COLD POOL ALOFT MOVES E. PRECIP MSTLY N/E OF SE IN/N CNTL KY AND SW OH... OUT OF CINCY METRO AREA. HERE...LIKELY NOTHING MORE THAN AN ISOLD RW THRU EARLY AM. PROGS PUSH VORTMX E OF FCST AREA BY 12Z...LOOKS A LITTLE FAST BUT SHUD STILL PUSH E OF REGION BEFORE NOON. THEN...HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO REGION FROM N. ACRS FAR N COUNTIES...CLDS SHUD BREAK FOR SUN BY NOON...AND SHUD BECOME M/SUNNY N OF ILN BY MID AFTN. HOWEVER...GRIDDED DATA SHOWS LINGERING MSTR ACRS S OH/N KY AND SE IN THRU FIRST HLF OF TONITE. ALSO...TRAILING MID/UPR LVL VORTMX PRGGD TO ROTATE THRU DIGGING LNGWV TROF AND THRU S COUNTIES OF FCST AREA ARND 0Z. MDLS PRINT OUT PRECIP IN THIS AREA LATER TDA/THIS EVE. BOTTOM LINE...WHILE PRECIP ENDS ACRS ENTIRE REGION THIS AM CHC POPS (FOR RW-) IN ORDER ACRS N KY...S OH AND PERHAPS SE IN FOR LATE AFTN/EVE. AFTER LAST MID/UPR IMPULSE MOVES E OF REGION BY MIDNIGHT...MEAN 30% RH OVERSPREADS ENTIRE REGION AS SFC HI BUILDS IN FROM N. M/CLR N/CNTL...BECOMG M CLR S TONITE. THU...M/SUNNY AND COOL ACRS AREA... ALTHO WITH H8 TMPS BLO +5 ACRS REGION...MAY BE CU/SC PM. NE WNDS 15-25 MPH ACRS N TDA. WL TREND TWD COOLER AVN MOS POPS FOR MAX TMPS NEXT 2 DAYS. CVG 66/45/66 420 DAY 64/43/64 620 CMH 65/42/65 800 ROWLEY
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 28, 9:11 PM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
910 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
0750 PM WHEATLEY KY WIND DAMAGE
5/28/96 OWEN ***1 INJ***
MOBILE HOME OVERTURNED.
TREES DOWNED.
0800 PM RICHWOOD KY WIND DAMAGE
5/28/96 BOONE SEVERAL TREES UPROOTED.
INNESSpecial weather statement, May 28, 10:07 PM EDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
OHZ060>065-070>074-077>082-088-290300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1005 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND THE MIAMI VALLEY... THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN DURING THE EVENING HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED EAST INTO SOUTHEAST OHIO. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHERN OHIO OVERNIGHT BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND THE MIAMI VALLEY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. RANDALL
Local storm report, May 28, 10:49 PM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1048 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0812 PM COUNTYWIDE KY FLOODING
05/28/96 BOONE SEVERAL CREEKS FULL OR
OVERFLOWING
0910 PM 2 W UNION KY FLOODING
05/28/96 BOONE ONE FOOT OF WATER FLOWING
OVER BENDEN ROAD
0910 PM FLORENCE KY FLOODING
05/28/96 BOONE GUNPOWDER ROAD UNDER WATERSpecial weather statement, May 28, 11:08 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
KYZ089>100-290400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1105 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTHERN KENTUCKY... THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE XWEAKENED AND MOVED EAST OUT OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER NORTHERN KENTUCKY HAS ENDED. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. RANDALL
Local storm report, May 29, 12:04 AM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1205 AM EDT WED MAY 29 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1105 |PM COUNTYWIDE KY FLOODING
05/28/96 BOONE NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED DUE
TO HIGH WATER
RANDALLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 30 min |
| May 29, 4:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking | 38 min |
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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.