Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT for Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 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 2, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1997, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Licking County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 022201 FFWILN OHC089-030000- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 600 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OHIO HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...LICKING COUNTY AT 6 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING 1.5 AND 2.0 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE PAST HOUR OVER WESTERN MUSKINGUM COUNTY. THE STORMS PRODUCING THIS TORRENTIAL RAIN WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AROUND 10 MPH AND WILL PASS OVER SOUTHERN LICKING COUNTY...ACROSS NEWARK...HEBRON AND COLUMBIA CENTER. THIS RAINFALL WILL CAUSE MANY SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TO FLOOD. 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. RANDALL 0
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 2, 3:00 PM EDT, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:00 PM EDT, 3 hours before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 300 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997 QUSAI-STATIONARY UPR LO OVR S CNTR TN/NRN AL 12Z THIS MRNG WITH CYC E-NE FLO OVR OH. ILN H5 TEMPS HV COOLED 3 DEG FM -12 TO -15 DEG THIS MRNG. SCTD HVY RAIN PRODUCING TSTMS DVLPG OVR WV/SE OH NE KY WHERE GOOD MSTR CVRGC...LI/S -6...WHERE GOOD SS HAS BEEN OBSVRD. LTST WV IMGRY SHWS S/WV ROTATING ARND E SIDE OF UPR LO THRU ERN TN. THIS FEATURE XPCTD TO ROTATE INTO OH VLY THIS EVE...SHUD AID TSTM DVLPMNT THIS EVE OVR SRN OH AND NRN KY WHERE LKLY POPS LOOK INORDER. GIVEN XPCTD DWPTS PREFER WRMR LOW TEMPS ASCD WITH FWC GUID TNGT. TSTMS DUMPING 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR...IN VERY MOIST AMS...THEREFORE PREFER MAINTAINING FFA FOR SW OH...S CNTRL OH/NE KY TNGT. MODELS SIMILAIR OPENING UP CLOSED LO AND MOVING IT E ACRS SE U.S. AS EMBEDDED S/WV DROPS S ACRS OH. BAND OF MSTR AND GOOD PE/S DROPS S INTO CNTRL OH TNGT AND SRN OH...ERLY ON TUE. XPCT CONTD SHWRS AND TSTMS OVR THE S TUE WITH DRYING INTO THE NW BY AFTN. AGN PREFER FWC MOS NUMBERS WITH TUE HI/S. ENTIRE RGN DRIES OUT TUE NGT WITH NGM AND RGG INTO AREA AND 30 PERCENT MN RH INTO NW OH. IN NW FLO S/WV DROPS SE INTO LWR OH VLY BY 00Z THU WITH BEST MSTR RMNNG S OF OH RVR. AT THIS POINT PREFER TO KEEP FCST DRY ACRS AREA WITH WK LIFT AND MSTR STAYING TO THE S. CVG 063 075/059 073/055 752 DAY 060 071/055 070/053 652 CMH 061 070/056 071/053 752 RANDALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Madison | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Logan | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallia | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Delaware | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Union | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 52 min |
| Jun 2, 6:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Scioto | 118 min |
| Jun 2, 6:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Franklin | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 7:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Pike | 112 min |
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.