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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 5, 1997Scioto County, Ohio; Lewis County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Mar 5, 1997, 9:44 AM EST for Scioto County, Ohio; Lewis County, Kentucky. 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 5, 1997, 9:44 AM EST (14:44 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 1997, 2:00 PM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lewis County, KY, Scioto County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 848 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 95 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 051445
FFWILN
KYC135-OHC145-051900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
944 AM EST WED MAR 5 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO

   ...SCIOTO COUNTY

IN NORTHEAST KENTUCKY

   ...LEWIS COUNTY
 
OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAIN MOVING UP FROM CENTRAL KENTUCKY WILL PUSH INTO
NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN OHIO THIS MORNING. RADAR ESTIMATED
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND A HALF INCH AN HOUR HAVE OCCURRED OVER
CENTRAL KENTUCKY. EXPECT BETWEEN A HALF INCH TO AN INCH OF RAIN TO FALL
OVER LEWIS AND SCIOTO COUNTIES THROUGH lEARLY AFTERNOON. THIS WILL CAUSE
CREEKS AND STREAMS TO RISE QUICKLY TO BANKFULL.
 
IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE TO ESCAPE FLOOD
WATERS.  DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS
RISING.

FARINA

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 Mar 5, 3:00 AM EST, 6 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 3:00 AM EST, 6 hours 44 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
300 AM EST WED MAR 5 1997

LTST SFC ANLYS SHWG CD FNT FM NEAR MEM THRU EVV AND IND TO ARND TOL.
BEST MSTR CRNTLY ACRS CNTRL IL AND IND WHERE KIND-88D CONTS TO SHW
SHWRS PUSHING E OUT AHD OF APRCHG S/W. THESE SHWRS SHUD CONT TO PUSH
E INTO LIMA AND DAY AREA OVR NXT CPL HRS. SLY LLVL FLOW WL INCRS THRU
THIS MRNG...BRINGING DPR MSTR INTO AREA AS FNT PUSHES INTO FA AND SFC
LOW DVLPG IN TN VLY MOVS N ALG FNT TO JUST SOUTH OF CVG BY 12Z. AS IT
DOES...LLVL CONV WL INCRS ACRS AREA WITH SHWRS BCMG MORE NUMRS THRU MID
MRNG HRS FM W TO E. 30KT 8H JET NOSING INTO SW FA AT 12Z WL STRENGTHEN
SLGTLY AND SHIFT INTO SE FA THRU THIS AFTN. WITH RRQ OF UPR LVL JET S
OF FA TDA...SHUD SEE BEST UPR LVL DIVG RMN JUST S AND E OF FA THRU THIS
AFTN. HOWEVER...STILL ENUF TO PRODUCE DECENT RAINS ACRS SE FA THRU LATE
MRNG AND THIS AFTN. MAY ALSO SEE A FEW EMBEDDED TSTMS ACRS FAR SRN FA AS
THETA-E RDG AXIS SLIDES THRU. XPCT BEST PCPN S AND E OF LINE FM ARND
OWENTON THRU FALMOUTH TO ARND CHILLICOTHE. QPFS WL BE BORDERLINE BUT
WITH A FEW TSTMS PSBL AND ALREADY LOW FFG ACRS THIS AREA...FLASH FLOOD
WATCH FOR S CNTRL OH LOOKS GOOD TDA AND AGREE WITH SDF WITH FFA FOR NRN
KY CNTYS.

BEHIND FNT...PDS OF SHWRS TO LINGER ACRS RMNDR OF FA THRU THE AFTN AS
BETTER PVA OVRSPRDS AREA. WITH CRIT THKSS DRPG OFF PCPN SHUD CHG OVR TO
LGT SNW ACRS LIMA AREA THRU THE AFTN AND NRN DAY AREA LATE. SHUD THEN
SEE SHWRS GO TO A FEW FLURRIES THIS EVNG ACRS RMNDR FA AS DPR MSTR
PUSHES OFF TO E AND COOLER AIR SPILLS IN. MAY SEE SOME PARTIAL CLRG
ACRS W LATE AS HI PRES BLDS INTO RGN LATE TNGT AND THUR. FOR THUR..XPCT
PRTLY CLDY ACRS AREA.

WITH CAA MOVG IN...TMPS SHUD FALL OFF INTO MID 30S ACRS LIMA AREA THRU
THIS AFTN AND UPR 30S DAY. ELSEWHR...TMPS SHUD HOLD FAIRLY STEADY IN
LOW TO MID 40S.

CVG 46/29/43 920
CMH 46/30/41 930
DAY 44/28/41 820

LOTT

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.