Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1997, 10:40 PM EDT for Madison County, Ohio. It was in force for 80 min. 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, 10:40 PM EDT (02:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1997, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 80 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 030240 FFWILN OHC097-030400- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1040 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...MADISON COUNTY AT 1035 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT HEAVY RAIN HAD PUSHED WEST OF MADISON COUNTY. HOWEVER...OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY SINCE 8 PM. RUNOFF FROM THIS HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FLOODING OF ROADS ACROSS THIS AREA...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS NEAR AND NORTH OF U.S. ROUTE 40...UNTIL MIDNIGHT. ALSO...FLOODING OF CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS WILL CONTINUE IN THE COUNTY...INCLUDING SPRING FORK... LITTLE DARBY CREEK AND DEER CREEK...UNTIL MIDNIGHT. IF YOU ARE LOCATED NEAR A CREEK OR STREAM IN MADISON COUNTY...PREPARE TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING.
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, 9:42 PM EDT, 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 9:42 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 940 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997 NMRS REPORTS OF FLOODING ACROSS SRN AND CNTRL OH THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...LATEST 88D SCANS SHOWING WEAKENING TR&END IN RAIN. XPCT THIS TO CONTINUE WITH ONLY A SCT SHRA AFT MIDNIGHT. SHOULD BE ABLE TO DROP ALL FLOOD WATCHES AFT MIDNIGHT. WILKINSON
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 2, 7:28 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 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.
INNESLocal storm report, Jun 2, 7:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 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.
INNESLocal storm report, Jun 2, 9:40 PM EDT, 1 hour before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
940 PM EDT MON JUN 02 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0650 PM BUCKEYE LAKE OH FLOODING
06/02/97 LICKING SOME STREET FLOODING
0840 PM DARBYDALE OH FLOODING
06/02/97 FRANKLIN BIG DARBY RIVER STILL
OVERFLOWING BANKS AND
RISING.
0855 PM LAFAYETTE OH FLOODING
06/02/97 MADISON STATE ROUTES 42 AND 29
FLOODED IN CENTRAL MADISON
COUNTY.
INNESLocal storm report, Jun 2, 9:43 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
940 PM EDT MON JUN 02 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0650 PM BUCKEYE LAKE OH FLOODING
06/02/97 LICKING SOME STREET FLOODING
0840 PM DARBYDALE OH FLOODING
06/02/97 FRANKLIN BIG DARBY RIVER STILL
OVERFLOWING BANKS AND
RISING.
0855 PM LAFAYETTE OH FLOODING
06/02/97 MADISON STATE ROUTES 42 AND 29
( FLOODED IN CENTRAL MADISON
COUNTY.
INNESThe 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, 9:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Franklin | 3 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.