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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 25, 1997Paulding County, Putnam County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1997, 7:55 AM EDT for Paulding County, Putnam 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: May 25, 1997, 7:55 AM EDT (11:55 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 1997, 12:00 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 1321 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 251156
FFWILN
OHC125-137-251600-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
755 AM EDT SUN MAY 25 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL
1200 NOON EDT

FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO

   ...PAULDING COUNTY
   ...PUTNAM COUNTY
 
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DUMPED HEAVY RAINS ACROSS PAULDING
AND PUTNAM COUNTIES THIS MORNING. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES
INDICATE OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVERNIGHT. SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF THIS
MORNING. ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING
PROBLEMS. 

DO NO<T DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LOTT

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 25, 2:48 AM EDT, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:48 AM EDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
245 AM EDT SUN MAY 25 1997

LTST SFC ANLYS SHWG WRM FNT FM ARND SBN TO TOL TO ARND CLE WITH BEST
AREA OF PCPN ACRS NRN OH...INCLUDING NRN PORTIONS OF LIMA AREA. GNRLY
JUST SHWRS THO LDS SHWG AN OCNL STRIKE OR TWO. MEANWHILE...SCT SHWR
ACTVTY TRYING TO DIE DOWN SOME BUT 20-30 KT 8H JET SHFTG E ACRS KY THIS
MRNG HELPING TO KP SOME PCPN GOING.

FNT PROGD TO PUSH BACK S THRU THIS AFTN...REACHING FAR SRN FA TWD 00Z.
UPR LVL DYNAMICS WK THRU TDA BUT DECENT CONV WITH FNT AND PLENTY OF MSTR
IN PLACE SO SHUD SEE AREA OF PCPN ACRS N PUSH SLOWLY S THRU THIS MRNG.
WITH DAYTIME HTG...AMS WL DSTBLZ THRU THIS AFTN WITH TSTMS REDVLPG ACRS
NRN AND CNTRL FA AND PUSHING S INTO SRN FA THRU THIS AFTN. PWS ON THE
HIGH SIDE TDA...INCRSG TO 1.6-1.8 ACRS SRN FA LATE TDA SO PDS OF HVY
RAIN LIKELY WITH TSTMS. AS FNT PUSHES S...TSTMS SHUD TAPER OFF TO SHWRS
BY EVNG FM DAY AND CMH N BUT TSTMS LIKELY TO CONT ACRS SRN 1/2 FA INTO
THIS EVNG. FFG GNRLY NOT ALL THAT LOW BUT SOME PLACES ACRS S CNTRL OH
AND NRN KY HAV 1 HR FFG AS LOW AS 1.1 TO 1.2. WITH CRNT SCT PCPN
ALREADY OCCURRING ACRS THIS AREA AND CHC TSTMS CONTG INTO THIS EVNG
...PREFER TO GO WITH FFA FOR AT LEAST CVG AND PMH AREAS THRU THIS EVNG.

FNT HANGS UP JUST TO THE S TNGT AND MON WITH BAND OF MSTR RMNG ACRS
SRN PORTIONS FA. SCT SHWRS LIKELY TO LINGER SUN NGT ACRS MUCH OF FA
WITH HIGHEST POPS ACRS S. S/W APRCHG FM W THRU THE DAY MON WITH INCRSG
PVA ACRS AREA. WITH SOME MSTR STILL ARND...WUD XPCT SOME INCRS IN SHWR
ACTVTY ACRS CVG AND PMH AREA WITH CHC SHWRS CONTG ACRS DAY AND CMH.

WITH CLDS AND PCPN ARND TDA PREFER TO SHAVE A DGR OR TWO OFF FWC.
PREFER...WRMR FWC TNGT AND MON AS AVN APPEARS TOO FAST TO DRY THINGS
OUT.

CVG 73/57/68 +86
CMH 70/53/66 +63
DAY 71/54/67 +74

LOTT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 1:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Allen	108 min

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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.