Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Mar 18, 1997, 9:24 AM EST for Robertson 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, 9:24 AM EST (14:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1997, 1:30 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Robertson County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 181426 FFWILN KYC201-181830- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 924 AM EST TUE MAR 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH KENTUCKY ...ROBERTSON COUNTY AT 925 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAGES ESTIMATED THAT NEARLY AN INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER WESTERN ROBERTSON COUNTY SINCE 800 AM. MORE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED...RESULTING IN LIKELY FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADS ACROSS THE COUNTY. REMEMBER THAT MOST FLOOD DEATHS ARE THE RESULT OF EITHER DRIVING INTO FLOOD WATERS OR CHILDREN PLAYING IN FLOODED AREAS. NEVER DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADWAYS. THE WATER LEVEL MAY BE MUCH DEEPER THAN YOU THINK...OR THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT COMPLETELY. DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN PLAY NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES OR STREAMS. 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 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 2:38 AM EST, 6 hours 46 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, 5 hours 16 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, 5 hours 15 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, 8:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant | 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.