Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997

Flash Flood Warning 62, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 1, 1997Gallia County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 1997, 8:58 PM EDT for Gallia County, Ohio. It was in force for 5 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, 8:58 PM EDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1997, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Gallia County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 68 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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 Jun 1, 8:55 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 8:55 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
854 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997

EVENING SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED WK LOW PRES ACROSS THE TN VLY.  TSRA
WERE FIRING ALONG A CONVERGENCE ZONE BWTN STRONG N/NELY WINDS IN NRN OH
AND WK SELY WINDS OVR SRN FA.  NMRS REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN
RECEIVED WITH THIS CONVECTION OVR CNTRL OH.  CONT FLASH FLOOD WATCH OVR
CNTRL OH AND FLOOD WATCH IN W-CNTRAL OH.  ACROSS SRN 1/3 FA...THTE AND
PRECIP EFFICIENCY WL REMAIN LWR AND DO NOT XPCT MUCH ACTIVITY
OVERNIGHT.

WITH H5 UPPER LOW IN PLACE OVR THE NEXT FEW DAYS XPCT MORE SCT
SHRA/TSRA TO DEVELOP ACROSS FA.

WILKINSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 8:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNMadison3 hr
Jun 1, 8:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNLogan3 hr
Jun 1, 9:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNDelaware3 hr
Jun 1, 9:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNUnion2 hr
Jun 2, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont52 min
Jun 2, 6:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNLicking2 hr
Jun 2, 6:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNScioto118 min
Jun 2, 6:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNFranklin2 hr
Jun 2, 6:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNFairfield2 hr
Jun 2, 7:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNPike112 min

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.