Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Mar 18, 1997, 8:56 AM EST for Grant 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 18, 1997, 8:56 AM EST (13:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1997, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 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 181358 FFWILN KYC081-181800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 856 AM EST TUE MAR 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH KENTUCKY ...GRANT COUNTY AT 855 AM EST...AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN WERE CONTINUING TO FALL OVER SOUTHERN GRANT COUNTY IN KENTUCKY. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT FROM 0.75 TO ONE INCH HAD FALLEN OVER THE AREA SINCE 800 AM EST. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED TO LAST THROUGHOUT THE DAY...WITH FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE. NEVER DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO A FLOODED ROADWAY. YOU CAN EASILY BECOME STRANDED OR TNRAPPED. 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
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 18, 2:38 AM EST, 6 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 2:38 AM EST, 6 hours 18 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 237 AM EST TUE MAR 18 1997 06Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED A LOW ACROSS OK WITH A FRONTAL SYSTEM ACROSS THE NRN OH VLY...VC LIMA ATTM. AREA 88D'S AND LDS CHARTS SHOW TSRA DEVELOPING ACROSS SRN IL-IN. THIS WAS OCCURING IN AREA OF STRONG UPPER DIVERGENCE AS SHOWN BY MODELS. MODELS FCST STRONG DIV INTO CVG AREA BY 12Z...SO XPCT TSRA THERE. MODELS AGREE ON TRACKING THE LOW FURTHER S AND KEEPING SIGNIFICANT PRECIP OUT OF WEST-CENTRAL OH. PRECIP SHOULD BE RN FOR MOST OF THE AM AND THEN MAY SWITCH TO SN DURING THE PM. AT MOST 1-2 INCHES OF SN POSSIBLE. MAY EVEN BE A SWITCHOVER FOR REST OF AREAS N OF 1-70 TOWARD 00Z. A QUICK INCH POSSIBLE THERE...BUT DAY SHIFT CAN WORRY ABOUT THAT. SECOND CONCERN IS PRECIP AMOUNTS ACROSS THE SRN FA. MODELS SHOW BEST LIFT...PRECIP WATER...AND UPPER DIV ALONG THE OH RIVER TODAY. MODEL QPF'S MAY BE UNDERDONE IF THE TSRA PERSISTS. HOWEVER...FLOODING SHOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM DAY-CMH AND NWD. WITH THE TSRA EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS SRN OH WL STICK WITH FLOOD WATCH THERE...COORD WITH CLE. PRECIP ENDS TONIGHT AROUND 00Z VC LIMA...06Z VC DAY-CMH AND 12Z CVG AND PORTSMOUTH. CVG 50/34l/52 ++2 DAY 46/32/50 ++1 CMH 46/32/49 ++1 WILKINSON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 4:08 AM EST, 4 hours 48 minutes before
OHZ015-016-181500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 408 AM EST TUE MAR 18 1997 ...WINTER STORM WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PAULDING AND PUNTNAM COUNTIES IN WEST-CENTRAL OHIO... THE STORM SYSTEM THAT WAS EXPECTED TO CAUSE SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL ACROSS WEST-CENTRAL OHIO IS NOW EXPECTED TO TRACK FURTHER SOUTH. RAIN WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING AND A CHANGEOVER TO SNOW IS POSSIBLE BY THIS AFTERNOON. ACCUMULATIONS COULD REACH FROM 1-2 INCHES IN SPOTS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND THE LOCAL AND CABLE MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. WILKINSON
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 4:09 AM EST, 4 hours 47 minutes before
OHZ015-016-181500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 408 AM EST TUE MAR 18 1997 ...WINTER STORM WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PAULDING AND PUNTNAM COUNTIES IN WEST-CENTRAL OHIO... THE STORM SYSTEM THAT WAS EXPECTED TO CAUSE SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL ACROSS WEST-CENTRAL OHIO IS NOW EXPECTED TO TRACK FURTHER SOUTH. RAIN WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING AND A CHANGEOVER TO SNOW IS POSSIBLE BY THIS AFTERNOON. P ACCUMULATIONS COULD REACH FROM 1-2 INCHES IN SPOTS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND THE LOCAL AND CABLE MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. WILKINSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 9:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Robertson | 4 hr |
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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.