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Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 1997, 8:12 PM EDT for Van Wert County, Ohio. 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 30, 1997, 8:12 PM EDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1997, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Van Wert County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 517 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 010013 FFWILN OHC161-010215- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 812 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 1015 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO ...VAN WERT COUNTY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED HEAVY RAINS OVER MUCH OF VAN WERT COUNTY THIS EVENING. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN BETWEEN VAN WERT AND WETZEL SINCE 7 PM EDT. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS VAN WERT COUNTY THROUGH 9 PM EDT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN. THIS WILL RESULT IN AREAS OF FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS AND ALONG SMALLER CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LOTT
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, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 3:01 PM EDT, 5 hours 11 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.