Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Mar 1, 1997, 7:55 PM EST for Bracken County, Pendleton County, Robertson County, Kentucky; Brown County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 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, 7:55 PM EST (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bracken County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Brown County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 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 020054 FFWILN KYC023-041-077-081-135-161-187-191-201-OHC145-001-015-020500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 755 PM EST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH KENTUCKY ...BRACKEN COUNTY...CARROLL COUNTY...GALLATIN COUNTY ...GRANT COUNTY...LEWIS COUNTY...MASON COUNTY...OWEN COUNTY ...PENDLETON COUNTY...ROBERTSON COUNTY IN SOUTH OHIO ...SCIOTO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO ...ADAMS COUNTY...BROWN COUNTY FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ADAMS...SCIOTAND BROWN COUNTIES IN OHIO AND FOR BRACKEN...MASON...PENDLETON AND LEWIS COUNTIES IN KENTUCKY. THE FLOOD WARNING FOR CARROLL...GALLATIN...GRANT...OWEN AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES IN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A FLASH FLOOD WARNING. THE HARDEST HIT AREAS ARE IN ADAMS AND SCIOTO COUNTIES...WHERE ONE FATALITY HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AND SEVERAL PEOPLE ARE REPORTED MISSING. FROM 100 TO 200 FAMILIES HAVE BEEN EVACUATED...AND NUMEROUS ROADS AND BRIDGES HAVE BEEN WASHED OUT IN ADAMS AND SCIOTO COUNTIES ALONE. IN KENTUCKY...LEWIS AND CARROLL COUNTIES HAVE REPORTED HOMES FLOODED...WITH ALL OF THE KENTUCKY COUNTIES IN THE WARNING AREA REPORTING NUMEROUS ROADS AND BRIDGES BEING WASHED OUT. 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. NEVER DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO A FLOODED ROADWAY. YOU CAN EASILY BECOME STRANDED OR TRAPPED. THE DEPTH OF WATER IS NOT ALWAYS OBVIOUS. IF YOU ARE UNSURE ABOUT THE ROAD CONDITION OR THE WATER LEVEL AHEAD OF YOU...TURN AROUND AND TAKE ANOTHER ROUTE. DIAN &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Lewis, Mason | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 9:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 38 min |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Lewis, Mason | 8 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Bracken | 8 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Robertson | 8 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen, Pendleton | 8 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Pike, Ross | 8 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1997Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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.