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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 1, 1997Gallatin County, Owen County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 1997, 10:23 AM EDT for Gallatin County, Owen 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, 10:23 AM EDT (14:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1997, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gallatin County, KY, Owen County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 011423
FFWILN
KYC077-187-011730-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1023 AM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY

   ...GALLATIN COUNTY
   ...OWEN COUNTY
 
RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL OF 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES HAS CAUSED RISES ON THE
CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS OWEN AND GALLATIN COUNTIES IN KENTUCKY.
OFFICIALS REPORTED EVACUATIONS OCCURRING ALONG EAGLE CREEK WHICH IS
THE BORDER BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTIES. SOME OTHER AREAS LIKELY HAVE
STANDING WATER ON ROADS...AND CREEKS OUT OF THEIR BANKS.
 
DO NOT 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.

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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 Jun 1, 2:45 AM EDT, 7 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 2:45 AM EDT, 7 hours 38 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
245 AM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997

WOW  BIG UPPER LOW BARELY MOVES THRU THE PD AS IT OCCLUDES. ISENTROPIC
DATA SHOWS CONTINUAL LIFT TODAY WITH SATURATED CONDITIONS.  UVV...LOW
LVL MOISTURE CONVG AND UPPER DIVG ALL OVER RGN THRU THE PD ALTHOUGH
THESE PARAMETERS WEAKEN MONDAY AS SYSTEM OCCLUDES.  PCPN EFFICIENCY
MAXIMUM AXIS NR THE OH RVR INITIALLY THEN LIFTS NWRD ACROSS C AND N OH
AND IN.  RAINFALL CONVEYER BELT THAT HAS BEEN SURGG NWRD WL BEGIN TO
CHANGE ITS ORIENTATION BY LAYING OUT E-W TNGT INTO MON.  THIS WL ALLOW
DRY SLOT TO LIFT NWRD TO OH RVR LTR THIS AFTN OR EVENG.  COULD TURN OUT
THAT HEAVIEST RAIN WITH THIS EVENT ENDS UP IN CMH AREA.  AM NOT SURE IF
UPSTREAM FLOW OFF MTNS WL END UP REDUCG QPF AMOUNTS...BUT DYNAMICS AND
MOISTURE IMPRESSIVE ENOUGH TODAY NOT TO FACTOR THAT IN.

WL RECOMMEND FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF FA TODAY AND TNGT...THIS INCLUDES
SE IN AND N KY COUNTIES.  COULD BE TROUBLE IF WE DOUBLE OUR CURRENT QPF
BY MON MORNG.  WL WORRY ABOUT PCPN CUTTG OFF IN THE S LTR AND NOT TRY
TO GET FANCY WITH THE FLOOD WATCH TIMG.  HOPEFULLY CONVECTION STAYS
WELL TO OUR S AND E...BUT SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD GET INTO NE KY AND
SC OH.  ONLY POSS CHANGE IN FCST WOULD BE TO LWR MON POPS AS ORGANIZED
PCPN AREA MAY NOT OCCUR WITH SCT CONVECTION AROUND SLOWLY DYING SYSTEM.

SEE NO REASON TO STRAY FM FWC NUMBERS.

CVG  67/60/75/59  +/5/4
DAY  66/59/72/58  +/8/5
CMH  67/60/72/59  +/+/7

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The 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, 12:37 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Campbell	3 hr
Jun 1, 4:06 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Boone	4 hr

Nearby

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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.