Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997

Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 2, 1997Franklin County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1997, 9:21 PM EDT for Franklin 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 2, 1997, 9:21 PM EDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1997, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 477 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 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 030122
FFWILN
OHC049-030400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
921 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL OHIO

   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
HEAVY RAINFALL BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES FELL OVER NORTHERN MADISON
COUNTY BETWEEN 615 AND 915 PM THIS EVENING. THIS WATER WAS DRAINING
INTO THE LITTLE AND BIG DARBY CREEKS...RESULTING IN RAPID RISES.
PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST FRANKLIN COUNTY WITH INTEREST ALONG THE LITTLE
OR BIG DARBY CREEKS SHOULD TAKE FLOOD PROTECTIVE MEASURES
IMMEDIATELY. EVACUATIONS WERE OCCURRING ALONG A PORTION OF BIG
DARBY CREEK IN SOUTHWEST FRANKLIN COUNTY.
 
IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE TO ESCAPE FLOOD
WATERS.  DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS
RISING.

RANDALL
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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 2, 3:00 PM EDT, 6 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:00 PM EDT, 6 hours 21 minutes 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 7:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
728 PM EDT MON JUN 02 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0659 PM    POWELLSVILLE              OH   FLOODING
06/02/97   SCIOTO                         SEVERAL HOMES WITH
                                          SIGNIFICANT FLOODING.
                                          WATER FLOWING OVER
                                          NUMEROUS ROADS IN
                                          SOUTHEAST SCIOTO COUNTY.

0715 PM    MINFORD                   OH   FLOODING
06/02/97   SCIOTO                         ONE FAMILY EVACUATED.

INNES

Local storm report, Jun 2, 7:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
728 PM EDT MON JUN 02 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0659 PM    POWELLSVILLE              OH   FLOODING
06/02/97   SCIOTO                         SEVERAL HOMES WITH
                                          SIGNIFICANT FLOODING.
                                          WATER FLOWING OVER
               L                           NUMEROUS ROADS IN
                                          SOUTHEAST SCIOTO COUNTY.

0715 PM    MINFORD                   OH   FLOODING
06/02/97   SCIOTO                         ONE FAMILY EVACUATED.

INNES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 8:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Adams	113 min
Jun 2, 8:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Scioto	118 min
Jun 2, 8:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Madison	2 hr
Jun 2, 8:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Madison	117 min
Jun 2, 9:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Clark	114 min
Jun 2, 10:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Madison	80 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1997 Every 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.