Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 92, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1997, 3:25 PM EDT for Campbell 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, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1997, 5:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Campbell County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 181924 FFWILN KYC037-182125- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 325 PM 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 525 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY ...CAMPBELL COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE TRACKING ACROSS SOUTHERN CAMPBELL COUNTY. WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED UP TO 1.0 INCH OF RAINFALL OVER MORNING VIEW AND GRANTS LICK BETWEEN 220 PM AND 320 PM. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER SOUTHERN CAMPBELL COUNTY THROUGH 415 PM. THIS RAINFALL ON SATURATED SOIL FROM EARLIER RAIN WILL LIKELY RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING ROADS AND CREEKS. 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
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, 3:06 PM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:06 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 305 PM EDT WED JUN 18 1997 SAT PIX SHWG VORT MAX ROTATING INTO SW OH WITH NARROW BAND OF CLRG OUT AHD OF IT. AREA OF HVYR PCPN HAS PRETTY MUCH MOVD OUT OF CWA THO A FEW HVYR SHWRS CONTG OVR HOCKING AND FAIRFIELD CNTYS. SCT SHWRS AND A FEW TSTMS CONTG INVOF VORT OVR FAR SW FA AND THESE SHUD PUSH E ACRS SRN 2/3 FA THRU ERLY EVNG. WL HAVE TO WATCH FOR ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS SINCE THIS AREA WAS WORKED OVR ERLYR. OTHRWS...PCPN SHUD COME TO AN END THRU THIS EVNG AS SUBSDNC/DRYING WORKS IN BEHIND VORT. GRID DATA SHWG SOME MID LVL MSTR MOVG IN OVRNGT BUT MAINLY JUST DIURNAL CU ACRS NRN IND SO SHUD SEE SOME CLRG MOVG IN FM NW TO SE OVRNGT. WITH RAIN TDA WL LIKELY SEE GOOD DEAL OF FOG DVLP THRU THE ERLY MRNG HRS. WK SFC BNDRY TO RMN IN PLACE THRU THU ACRS FA AND THEN SHIFT SLOWLY N THU NGT INTO FRI. NOT A WHOLE LOT OF DP MSTR TO WORK WITH AND VERY LTL LLVL CONV ALG BNDRY. LI/S ONLY GO SLTLY UNSTBL AT BEST BUT WITH SOME DAYTIME HTG ALG WITH GUD DEAL OF LLVL MSTR...CANT RULE OUT SOME ISOLTD AFTN SHWRS/TSTMS ON THU. OTRWS JUST PRTLY CLDY THRU PD. GUID TMPS FAIRLY CLOSE. CVG 63/83/62/86 5212 DAY 62/83/6j2/86 4212 CMH 63/83/62/85 5212 LOTT ...CORRECTED DAYS...
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 18, 11:18 AM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
1117 AM EDT WED JUN 18 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0945 AM KY FLOODING
06/18/97 BOONE NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED DUE
TO HIGH WATER
0950 AM CINCINNATI OH FLOODING
06/18/97 HAMILTON NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED
NEAR DOWNTOWN
1028 AM OH FLOODING
06/18/97 WARREN NUMEROUS CREEKS OUT OF
BANKS. MASON-MORROW ROAD
CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER
1100 AM OH FLOODING
06/18/97 CLERMONT NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED
NEAR BATAVIA AND NORTHERN
PART OF COUNTYLocal storm report, Jun 18, 1:25 PM EDT, 2 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
125 PM EDT WED JUN 18 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1100 AM FT MITCHELL KY FLOODING
06/18/97 KENTON DAVIS ROAD CLOSED DUE TO
HIGH WATER
1230 PM PICKERINGTON OH FLOODING
06/18/97 FAIRFIELD SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED DUE
TO HIGH WATERLocal storm report, Jun 18, 1:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
125 PM EDT WED JUN 18 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1100 AM FT MITCHELL KY FLOODING
06/18/97 KENTON DAVIS ROAD CLOSED DUE TO
HIGH WATER
1230 PM PICKERINGTON OH FLOODING
06/18/97 FAIRFIELD SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED DUE
TO HIGH WATERLocal storm report, Jun 18, 2:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
207 PM EDT WED JUN 18 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0100 PM OH FLOODING
06/18/97 LICKING 1 TO 2 FEET OF WATER
COVERING SEVERAL ROADS IN
SOUTHERN PART OF COUNTYLocal storm report, Jun 18, 2:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
219 PM EDT WED JUN 18 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0130 PM NEWARK OH FLOODING
06/18/97 LICKING CREEKS OUT OF THEIR BANKS
AND MANY ROADS FLOODED AND
COVERED WITH WATER
SOUTHWEST OF NEWARK.Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
219 PM EDT WED JUN 18 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0130 PM NEWARK OH FLOODING
06/18/97 LICKING CREEKS OUT OF THEIR BANKS
AND MANY ROADS FLOODED AND
COVERED WITH WATER
& SOUTHWEST OF NEWARK.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, 10:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Kenton | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant | 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.