Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 1997, 8:25 PM EDT for Adams County, Ohio. It was in force for 100 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1997, 8:25 PM EDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1997, 10:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 100 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 806 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 200027 FFWILN OHC001-200205- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 825 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1005 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO ...ADAMS COUNTY AN ADDITIONAL AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WILL PUSH THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL ADAMS COUNTY THROUGH 915 PM. ANOTHER 1 TO 1.5 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED OVER ALREADY FLOODED AREAS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 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 May 19, 2:53 PM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 2:53 PM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 250 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997 AT 17Z...THE CLD FRNT XTENDED ACRS ECNTRL MI SE TO SRN IL. SH AND TSTM WERE DEVELPING ACROSS ENTIRE CWA. SAT PICT SHOWS EXPLOSIVE DEV IN TN AND SRN KY WITH THE CU FIELD QUICKLY FILLING IN ACROSS SRN IN...NRN KY AND OH. XPECT THE SH AND TSTMS TO CONTINUE DEVELPING THIS AFT AS THE FRONT PUSHES E. THE PROBLEMS OF THE DAY ARE WHEN TO TIME OUT THE PRECIP THIS EVE AS WELL AS HOW COLD WILL TEMPS BE TONIGHT. MODELS ARE STILL IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT ESP WITH THE EWRD PROGRESSION OF THE FRNT. XPECT THE FRNT TO BE E OF DAY AND CVG BY 00Z. THUS WILL SEE LINGERING SH AND TSTS IN THE W TO COME TO AN END THIS EVE. IN THE EAST...XPCT THE ACTIVITY END BY MID. FOR TON...DRYER AIR WL WORK IN FROM THE GREAT LKS SO SHOULD SEE PARTIAL CLEARING IN THE NW DURING THE OVERNIGHT HRS...AND DURING THE EARLY MORNING HRS ACRS CVG...CMH...DAY. WITH STRNG CAA MOVING IN OVERNIGHT...TEMPS WILL PLUMMET. 850 TEMPS BY 12Z TUE WILL RANGE BTWN 2 AND 7 ACRS THE AREA. AS FOR TUE...ANTICYCLONIC CURVATURE ALONG WITH NRLY FLOW AND CAA WILL BE THE DOM FEATURES. XPCT SOME CU TO DEV ESP ACROS THE N WHERE MOIST LEVELS WILL BE HIGHER. HOWEVER...SKIES SHOULD PRODIMANTLY BE PS WHILE SOME AREAS ESP IN KY MAY SEE MS FOR MUCH OF THE DAY. THE HIGH WILL CONT TO BUILD IN FROM W TUE NIGHT WHICH WL AID IN A CLEARING TREND TOWARD SUNSET. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE WILL DROP INTO THE AREA WED. THUS XPECT TO SEE SOME CLOUDS DEV DURING THE DAY...MAINLY IN THE NORTH THOUGH. TEMPS WILL BE COLD AS 850 TEMPS REMAIN BELOW 0 ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. AS FOR TEMPS...TNK FAN NUMBERS ARlE A LITTLE ON THE COOL SIDE FOR TUE AND WED. SO TENDED TO LEAN MORE TOWARD MOS VALUES. CVG 49/65/42/63/44 5/0/0 DAY 47/63/42/61/43 5/0/0 CMH 48/62/40/60/41 7/0/0 INNES
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 19, 7:36 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
737 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0657 PM OH FLOODING
05/19/97 ADAMS WATER COVERING RT 136 2
MILES N OF RT 41
0657 PM WEST UNION OH FLOODING
05/19/97 ADAMS 2 FEET OF WATER AROUND
HOUSES AND CARS IN
DOWNTOWN
0706 PM DUNKINSVILLE OH FLOODING
05/19/97 ADAMS WFATER AROUND BASES OF
BUILDINGS BUILT ON STILTSLocal storm report, May 19, 7:37 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
737 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0657 PM OH FLOODING
05/19/97 ADAMS WATER COVERING RT 136 2
MILES N OF RT 41
0657 PM WEST UNION OH FLOODING
05/19/97 ADAMS 2 FEET OF WATER AROUND
HOUSES AND CARS IN
DOWNTOWN
0706 PM DUNKINSVILLE OH FLOODING
05/19/97 ADAMS WATER AROUND BASES OF
BUILDINGS BUILT ON STILTSSpecial weather statement, May 19, 8:10 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
OHZ073-074-082-088-200200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 810 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED... OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN SO ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS WILL PERSIST...ESPECIALLY ACROSS ADAMS AND SCIOTO COUNTIES. HOWEVER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED SO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LOTT
Special weather statement, May 19, 8:12 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
OHZ073-074-082-088-200200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 810 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED... OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN SO ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS WILL PERSIST...ESPECIALLY ACROSS ADAMS AND SCIOTO COUNTIES. HOWEVER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED SO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LOTT
Local storm report, May 19, 8:19 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
820 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0733 PM OH FLOODING
05/19/97 ADAMS WATER COVERING RT 348 6
MILES EAST OF WEST UNION
0742 PM CEDAR MILLS OH FLOODING
05/19/97 ADAMS 2 FEET OF WATER OVER RT
348Local storm report, May 19, 8:20 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
820 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0733 PM OH FLOODING
05/19/97 ADAMS WATER COVERING RT 348 6
MILES EAST OF WEST UNION
0742 PM CEDAR MILLS OH FLOODING
05/19/97 ADAMS 2 FEET OF WATER OVER RT
348The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 8:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Scioto | 2 hr |
| May 19, 10:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams, Scioto | 2 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.