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Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1996, 2:13 AM EDT for Hocking County, Ohio. It was in force for 107 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
- Jun 19, 1996, 2:13 AM EDT (06:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1996, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 107 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hocking County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:15 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 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 190612 FFWILN OHC073-190800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 213 AM EDT WED JUN 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...HOCKING COUNTY AT 210 AM...THE WILMINGTON DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING AN AREA OF HEAVY RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS HEADING FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF HOCKING COUNTY. EARLIER TONIGHT...THAT SAME AREA RECEIVED UP TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAINFALL. THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE COUNTY. THE AREAS MOST AT RISK FOR FLOODING INCLUDE THE AREAS AROUND STARR TO MURRAY CITY...JUST TO THE NORTH OF NELSONVILLE. THE CREEKS THAT MAY BECOME DANGEROUS INCLUDE RACCOON AND MONDAY CREEKS. THE HOCKING RIVER WILL ALSO BE AT RISK OF FLOODING AROUND HAYDENVILLE. 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. PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING...HIKING...RAFTING...OR CAMPING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONARY ACTIONS NOW. REMEMBER THAT FLOODING CAN OCCUR VERY QUICKLY...EVEN IF IT IS NOT RAINING HEAVILY IN YOUR AREA. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER...MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. DANGELO
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 Jun 18, 8:35 PM EDT, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 8:35 PM EDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 835 PM EDT TUE JUN 18 1996 WW 631 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR OUR CWA. 23Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATES THAT OUR CWA STILL IN WARM SECTOR AHEAD OF WK LOW NR CHI WITH DEW POINTS IN THE LOWER 70S. LOWER LEVELS HAVE STABILIZED...BUT KILN SOUNDING INDICATES CAPES OVER 1200 WITH ONLY A SMALL CAP. RAMSDIS WV LOOP SHOWS S/WV MOVING ACROSS IN AND KIND 88D SHOWS BKN LINE OF RW/TRW MOVING AHEAD OF IT. BLV THAT THIS WL NOT BECOME WIDESPREAD BUT WIDELY SCATTERED RW/TRW SHOULD REMAIN IN FCST OVERNIGHT. SECOND PROBLEM WL BE FOG WHICH SHOULD BECOME LOCALLY DENSE WITH HIGH DEW POINTS AND A WET GROUND. LOWS AROUND 70 LOOK GOOD. WILKINSON
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 18, 8:15 PM EDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
813 PM EDT TUE JUN 18 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM LEESBURG OH WIND DAMAGE
06/18/96 HIGHLAND BARN ROOF BLOWN OFF;
HOG HOUSES BLOWN DOWN;
CEMENT FOUNDATION BLOCKS
MOVEDSpecial weather statement, Jun 18, 8:42 PM EDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
OHZ015-016-024>026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082- 088-190400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 841 PM EDT TUE JUN 18 1996 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE AREA OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED INTO EASTERN PARTS OF OHIO AND IS NO LONGER A THREAT TO THESE AREAS. SEVERAL REPORTS OF DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES WERE RECEIVED SINCE 500 PM EDT. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT BUT ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. WILKINSON
Local storm report, Jun 18, 8:58 PM EDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
857 PM EDT TUE JUN 18 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0700 PM WORTHINGTON 0 OH WIND DAMAGE
06/18/96 FRANKLIN NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES KNOCKED DOWN
WILKINSONNearby
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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.