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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 1, 1997Lewis County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Mar 1, 1997, 1:43 PM EST for Lewis County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 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
Mar 1, 1997, 1:43 PM EST (18:43 UTC)
Expired
Mar 1, 1997, 4:00 PM EST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lewis County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 12:00Z on 1997-03-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-03-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 411 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
411 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
353 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 011844
FFWILN
KYC041-077-135-012100-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
143 PM EST SAT MAR 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH KENTUCKY

   ...CARROLL COUNTY
   ...GALLATIN COUNTY

IN NORTHEAST KENTUCKY

   ...LEWIS COUNTY
 
RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL HAS LED TO MANY ROAD CLOSURES DUE TO HIGH WATER.
ACROSS CARROLL...GALLATIN AND LEWIS COUNTIES THERE WERE SECONDARY ROADS
CLOSED DUE TO WATER.  RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY AND TONIGHT
AND THIS WILL WORSEN THE FLOODING PROBLEM.  MORE ROADS ARE EXPECTED
TO BE CLOSED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT DUE TO ADDITIONAL RAINFALL.  

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

SANDLER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 1, 7:46 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNBracken, Mason3 hr
Mar 1, 8:10 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNGrant, Pendleton3 hr
Mar 1, 8:10 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNOwen3 hr
Mar 1, 8:10 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNRobertson3 hr
Mar 1, 10:53 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNBracken, Mason5 hr
Mar 1, 11:11 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNPendleton5 hr
Mar 1, 11:11 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNGrant, Owen5 hr
Mar 1, 11:11 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNRobertson5 hr
Mar 1, 1:43 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNCarroll, Gallatin2 hr
Mar 1, 3:59 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNRobertson4 hr
Mar 1, 3:59 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNCarroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen4 hr
Mar 1, 4:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNBracken, Mason, Pendleton4 hr
Mar 1, 4:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNLewis4 hr

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.