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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 1, 1997Franklin County, Union County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 1997, 7:55 PM EDT for Franklin County, Union County, Ohio. 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, 7:55 PM EDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1997, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, OH, Union County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 235 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 012355
FFWILN
OHC049-159-020300-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
755 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL
1100 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN CENTRAL OHIO

   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
   ...UNION COUNTY
 
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE COLUMBUS AREA IN FRANKLIN COUNTY AND IN
UNION COUNTY OHIO ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WHICH WILL CAUSE
FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS.
 
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 BEH ABANDONED
QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

PARKER

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, 3:32 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:32 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
330 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997

LATEST RADAR SHWS SHWRS AND TSTMS DEV OVR SRN OH WITH RAIN IN NRN CWA.
BEST STORMS IN ROSS CNTY OH. WITH CONVECTION DEVPG CAN AGREE WITH
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR CNTRL AND SRN OH AND FLOOD WATCH FOR NRN OH
FOR TNGT. FWC TEMPS LK REASONABLE. PRECIP SHD BECOME MORE SCT
OVER 48 HR PD.

CVG  61/74/60/74  09554
DAY  60/73/59/73  09665
CMH  62/74/61/74  09887

PARKER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 9:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNAdams, Brown, Highland2 hr
May 31, 11:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNAdams, Brown, Highland4 hr
Jun 1, 1:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNClermont3 hr
Jun 1, 4:06 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNButler, Clermont, Hamilton, Warren4 hr
Jun 1, 8:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNButler, Warren3 hr
Jun 1, 11:39 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNPutnam3 hr
Jun 1, 11:39 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNAuglaize, Mercer3 hr
Jun 1, 6:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNClark116 min
Jun 1, 6:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNChampaign3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.