Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1997, 10:00 AM EDT for Kenton County, Kentucky. 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 18, 1997, 10:00 AM EDT (14:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1997, 12:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kenton County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 521 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 181401 FFWILN KYC117-181605- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1000 AM EDT WED JUN 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1205 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY ...KENTON COUNTY AT 1000 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED FROM 0.75 TO 1.00 INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN NORTHERN KENTON COUNTY COUNTY SINCE 900 AM EDT. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING INTO THE COUNTY AND IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE AN INCH OR MORE OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL...WHICH IS LIKELY TO CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADS...CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH2 OF ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE ENOUGH TO FLOAT YOUR VEHICLE. DIAN
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 18, 9:29 AM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 9:29 AM EDT, 31 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 928 AM EDT WED JUN 18 1997 LTST SFC ALYS HAD LOW PRES STILL BACK OVR SRN IND WITH WRM FNT XTNDG E ALD DAY TO ARND CMH LINE. BROAD AREA OF SHWRS/TSTMS PUSHG E ACRS SRN FA ATTM WITH LCLLY HVY RAIN. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICTD UP TO AN INCH PER HR IN SOME LOCATIONS. WL PRBLY LET FFW FOR RIPLEY CNTY IND EXPIRE IN A FEW MINUTES AS HVRR RAIN HAS PUSHED E. NOT MUCH MORE THAN SOME STREET FLOODING OUT OF RIPLEY CNTY SO FAR. LOW PRES PROGD TO TRACK E ACRS SRN FA THRU THIS AFTN. CRNT FCST IN PRETTY GUD SHAPE WITH SHWRS AND TSTMS MOVG ACRS AREA WITH SOME HVY DOWNPOURS PSBL. LOTT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 9:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Campbell | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.