Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997

Flash Flood Warning 93, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 19, 1997Adams County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1997, 6:48 PM EDT for Adams County, Ohio. It was in force for 117 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 19, 1997, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1997, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Adams County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILN 192251
FFWILN
OHC001-200045-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
648 PM EDT THU JUN 19 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO

   ...ADAMS COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT BETWEEN
AN INCH TO AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 530 PM
AND 630 PM ACROSS SOUTHERN ADAMS COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF
MANCHESTER AND ALONG ISLAND CREEK.  THE STORM WHICH IS PRODUCING
THIS RAINFALL IS MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15
MPH. AS A RESULT...ANOTHER HALF OF AN INCH TO AN INCH OF RAIN IS
POSSIBLE THROUGH 745 PM WHICH WILL LIKELY CAUSE SMALL STREAMS AND
CREEKS TO RISE VERY QUICKLY.
 
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



INNES

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 19, 3:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
315 PM EDT THU JUN 19 1997

LTST SFC ANLYS HAS STA BNDRY REMAINING OVR NRN OH/SRN LWR MI...BUT ERN
EDGE OF BNDRY STARTING TO SAG S A BIT. SOME VERY WK BNDRYS IN ILN FA
ATTM...AND ARE APPRNT ON ILN 88D. SHRA- AND PSBL LOW TOPPED TSRA- MOVG
INTO CNTRL OH ATTM...BUT WEAKENING AND MAINLY N OF CMH. BNDRY APRS TO
TRAIL ALL THE WAY S TO SW OH...BUT ADAP INDICATING THAT BEST MSTR
CONVERGENCE IS OVR CNTRL/NRN OH AND SINKING ESE. DON/T XPCT TOO MUCH TO
DVLP ALNG THIS WK BNDRY INTO ERLY EVE...BUT MTN OF SHRA AND PSBL TSRA
IN AN EVE PD FOR CNTRL AND S CNTRL OH IS PROBABLY BEST.

FOR TNGT...STILL SOME LL MSTR LINGERING. AND WTH ONLY THIN CI AND LIGHT
WNDS...SOME BR IS PSBL IN VALLEY AREAS. NOT LIKELY TO GO AS LOW AS THIS
AM...THOUGH.

FOR FRI...BEST THETA E ADVECTION AND UVV STAYS UP NEAR BNDRY...AND
BNDRY SEEMS TO BEGIN TO LIFT N OUT OF FA. BEST CHC OF SCT SHRA/TSRA
PSBL INTO W CNTRL AND CNTRL OH....SO LIMA AREA OF ILN FA. ESPCY WTH
CONTINUAL H8 WAA AND UL RDG ALLOWING LL MSTR TO LINGER.

SAW WRKZFP/S...LIKE POPS AND TMPS FOR MOST PART...BUT PREFER TO BUMP SW
OH DOWN TO 20 PERCENT FOR FRI.

CVG 67/88/69/90 121
DAY 66/86/68/90 142
CMH 65/87/69/89 332

DIAN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 19, 1:43 PM EDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
143 PM EDT THU JUN 19 1997

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

0430 PM                              KY   FLOODING
06/18/97   CAMPBELL                       NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED DUE
                                          TO HIGH WATER

SHARTRAN

Local storm report, Jun 19, 1:48 PM EDT, 5 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
143 PM EDT THU JUN 19 1997

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

0430 PM                              KY   FLOODING
06/18/97   CAMPBELL                       NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED DUE
                                          TO HIGH WATER

SHARTRAN

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.