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Flash Flood Warning 98, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 30, 1996Boone County, Kenton County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 1996, 11:54 PM EDT for Boone County, Kenton County, Kentucky. 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
Jun 30, 1996, 11:54 PM EDT (03:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1996, 3:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Boone County, KY, Kenton County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:58 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 89 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1463 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1463 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1333 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILN 010356 COR
FFWILN
KYC015-117-010700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1156 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTH KENTUCKY

   ...BOONE COUNTY...KENTON COUNTY

HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES OVER KENTON AND BOONE COUNTIES AT 1145 PM EDT.
RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND 4 INCHES ARE COVERING 
PARTS OF KENTON AND BOONE COUNTIES. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY.

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.

FARINA

CORRECTION TO WORDING

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 30, 8:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 8:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
820 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 1996

TRW ALG OH RVR MVNG OFF TO SE...WILL BE OUT OF CLE FCST AREA AND IND
FCST AREA BY ISSUANCE TIME.  SFC FNT THRU CMH...NOT YET THRU DAY...CVG
AND PORTSMOUTH. DWPTS IN THE UPPER 50S AND LOW 60S IN NRN IN
ALREADY...SO SHUD SPREAD DOWN TO DAY BY AM. MAY WANT TO BUMP TEMPS DOWN
IN DAY AREA. NO CLDS TO THE NORTH...AREAS NORTH OF DAY/CMH SHUD SEE CLR
SKIES.

SFC FNT NOT FCST TO TRACK TO FAR SOUTH OF OH RVR BY SUNRISE...THIS SHUD
HOLD LO/S UP FOR CMH...CVG AND PORTSMOUTH OVRNITE. UP 60S OR NR 70 SHUD
WORK UNDER PARTLY CLOUDY OR MOSTLY CLR SKIES.

CHC OF TRW THRU MID FOR NRN KY TO ACCT FOR PRECIP CRNTLY ON 88D. THINK
MOST SHUD DIE OFF BY MID.

FCST FOR MON LOOKS GOOD...TEMPS LINE UP WELL AND SML CHC OF RW EARLY IN
NRN KY W/ FNT NEARBY.

FARINA

Nearby

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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.