Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 1997, 12:37 AM EDT for Campbell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 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
- Jun 1, 1997, 12:37 AM EDT (04:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1997, 3:35 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Campbell County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 31, 8:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 8:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 849 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 1997 00Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED LOW PRES NR THE SMOKEY MOUNTAINS WITH TROF/FNT MOVG SLOWLY EWD ACROSS FA. WINDS AT CVG-ILN-CMH HAVE ALL GONE NE IN THE LAST FEW HOURS. KILN 88D SHOWS AREA OF +RA WITH ISOLD TSRA OVR SERN FA AND -RA FURTHER N AND W. FEELING HERE IS THAT NEXT BATCH OF HEAVIER PRECIP LATER TONIGHT WL BEGIN TO CAUSE MORE WIDESPREAD PROBLEMS. CONT FFA IN OH. MODELS SHOW MOISTURE MOVG SLOWLY EWD TONIGHT AND THEN PROG FEATURES TO PIVOT BACK W ACROSS SAME AREAS THAT RECEIVED SIGNIFICANT PRECIP TODAY. CONCERNED TOMORROW ABOUT MORE CONVECTION AS MODELS SHOW SOME DRYING IN THE MID LEVELS. WILKINSON
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 31, 8:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
800 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0740 PM WILLIAMSBURG IN FLOODING
05/31/97 WAYNE 3 ROADS CLOSED AROUND THE
TOWN OF WILLIAMSBURG
BECAUSE OF GREENS FORK
CREEK OVER FLOWING.
0748 PM OH FLOODING
05/31/97 DARKE SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED DUE TO
HIGH WATER. US ROUTE 36
CLOSED DUE TO WATER ACROSS
THE ROAD.
RANDALLLocal storm report, May 31, 10:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
1030 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1026 PM IN FLOODING
05/31/97 WAYNE ROADS CLOSED ACROSS THE
WEST AND NORTH PARTS OF
COUNTY. JACKSONBURG...
STOVELAND AND RANDOLF
COUNTY LINE ROADS CLOSED.
RANDALLLocal storm report, May 31, 11:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
1122 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1115 PM OH FLOODING
05/31/97 DARKE FLOODING ACROSS MANY
COUNTY ROADS.
1117 PM OH FLOODING
05/31/97 BROWN FLOODING ACROSS MANY
COUNTY ROADS.
1118 PM OH FLOODING
05/31/97 ADAMS MANY ROADS FLOODED. U.S.
41 CLOSED BETWEEN
BENTONVILLE AND ABERDEEN.
1121 PM OH FLOODING
05/31/97 HIGHLAND MANY ROADS FLOODED DUE TO
HIGH WATER.
RANDALLLocal storm report, May 31, 11:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
1122 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1115 PM OH FLOODING
05/31/97 DARKE FLOODING ACROSS MANY
COUNTY ROADS.
1117 PM OH FLOODING
05/31/97 BROWN FLOODING ACROSS MANY
COUNTY ROADS.
1118 PM OH FLOODING
05/31/97 ADAMS MANY ROADS FLOODED. U.S.
41 CLOSED BETWEEN
BENTONVILLE AND ABERDEEN.
1121 PM OH FLOODING
05/31/97 HIGHLAND MANY ROADS FLOODED DUE TO
HIGH WATER.
RANDALLLocal storm report, May 31, 11:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
1130 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1045 PM KY FLOODING
05/31/97 MASON FLOODING ACROSS MANY ROADS
RANDALLLocal storm report, May 31, 11:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
1130 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1045 PM KY FLOODING
05/31/97 MASON FLOODING ACROSS MANY ROADS
RANDALLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 9:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Mason | 2 hr |
| May 31, 11:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Mason | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 12:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Campbell | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 10:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallatin, Owen | 3 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.