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Flash Flood Warning 95, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 1997, 7:42 PM EDT for Fayette County, Pickaway County, Ohio. It was in force for 93 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 30, 1997, 7:42 PM EDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1997, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, OH, Pickaway County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 302342 FFWILN OHC047-129-010115- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 742 PM EDT MON JUN 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...FAYETTE COUNTY ...PICKAWAY COUNTY A LINE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE SLOLWY TO THE NORTHEAST ACROSS PICKAWAY COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN WILLIAMSPORT AND PANCOASTBURG IN WESTERN PICKAWAY COUNTY AND EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY. NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE ENOUGH vTO FLOAT YOUR VEHICLE. KELLS
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 30, 3:01 PM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 3:01 PM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 300 PM EDT MON JUN 30 1997 18Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED BROAD SLY FLOW ACROSS THE OH VLY WITH UPPER 60S TO LWR 70S DEWPOINTS ACROSS FA. SHRA/TSRA WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS FA BUT REMAINED SCT...WHILE BETTER COVERAGE WAS CLOSER TO H5 VORT ACROSS IL-IN. MODELS FCST THIS FEATURE TO MOVE TO OH-IN BORDER BY 12Z. THUS...XPCT SHRA/TSRA TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE OVERNIGHT. PREFER LIKELY POPS WITH MENTION OF +RA. WL NEED TO KEEP LOW CHC IN WRN FA IN THE AM HRS ON TUE WITH BECMG P/S BY THE PM. LIKELY AND ENDING IN THE PM FOR ERN FA. STRONG SYSTEM TO DEVELOP ACROSS NRN MS VLY AND MOVE INTO THE LAKES BY FRI. ETA MODEL SHOWS SHARP THTE RIDGE JUST W OF FA AT 12Z WED. WITH STRONG UPPER SUPPORT AND SUFFICIENT LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE...THIS SYSTEM HAS POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SVR WX. HOWEVER...ETA HINTING AT SOME CAPPING WHICH MAY KEEP TSRA FROM DEVELOPING TOO FAR S. PREFER TO HAVE CHC PM TSRA VC LIMA-DAY. ELSEWHERE MAY EITHER BE CAPPED OR WL NOT GET THE TSRA UNTIL WED NIGHT. CVG 69/83/66/90 730 DAY 69/82/66/90 730 CMH 68/81/67/89 760 WILKINSON
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.