Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 111, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 1998, 5:39 PM EDT for Mason 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
- Jul 22, 1998, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1998, 7:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mason County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 222139 FFWILN KYC161-222340- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 539 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS FOR... MASON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY. * EFFECTIVE UNTIL 740 PM EDT. * THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING OVER SHANNON...MAYSLICK AND LEWISBURG OVER THE PAST TWO HOURS. RADAR ESTIMATS SINCE 230 THIS AFTERNOON SHOW 2 TO 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. * THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST OVER MASON COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 2 HOURS WITH UP TO 1 TO 3 ADDITIONAL INCHES OF RAIN EXPECTED. * MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO STAY AWAY FROM WATER ON ROADWAYS. TIPTON
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 Jul 22, 3:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 3:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 305 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1998 SFC FNT STILL HANGING UP ALNG XTRM NRN IN/IL AND MI BRDR THEN NE ALNG CANADIAN BRDR. WTH XCPTN OF REMAINING BNDRY OVR KY...MOST APRNT SFC BNDRYS LOOK TO BE NR SFC FNT OVR NRN IN/OH...WTH BEST POTL FOR TRIGGER STILL BACK OVER IL/WRN IN. THIS IS ALSO AREA OF BEST SFC MSTR CONVG AND PW/S UP TO ABT 1.8. PW/S OVR CNTRL OH UP TO 1.5. GETTING PLENTY OF SS ACRS ALL BUT NORTH WESTERN CWA...BUT STILL NO SIGNS OF CU DVLPMT XCPT OVR KY ALNG REMAINING BNDRY FM MID MORNING. BEST SCENARIO FOR UPR DIV/LL CONV COMBO APRS TO BE OVR CNTRL/NRN IN THRU EVENING AND XTNDG BACK SW THRU SRN IL. OVERNIGHT AS SFC FNT SAGS S...PERHAPS FAR WRN FA WL BE CLOSE TO BEST AREA FOR INSTABY...THTE RIDGE AND CONVERGENCE. LLJ WL ALSO SET UP NR OH RVR TO HELP KEEP THINGS GOING OVERNIGHT. THIS COMBINED WTH A DIFLUENT THKNS PATTERN SHUD BE PLENTY TO FUEL TSRA ESPCY OVR IN/IL...AND XNOSING INTO MAINLY WRN AND SRN HALF OF ILN FA. NGM HAS SFC FNT PROGGED TO PASS THRU DAY BY 24H...CMH ARND 16Z THU...THEN TO CVG/PMH BY 18Z THU. CVG 74/85/68 761 CMH 72/84/67 651 DAY 71/84/65 751 DIAN-REED
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 22, 2:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
242 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1105 PM KENTON OH WIND DAMAGE
07/21/98 HARDIN TREES DOWN IN THE CENTRAL
PART OF THE COUNTY.Special weather statement, Jul 22, 3:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-230200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 348 PM EDT (248 PM EST) WED JUL 22 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST (1000 PM EDT) FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA... WARM MOIST AIR AND AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE ARE COMBINING TO INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER PORTIONS OF INDIANA THROUGH TONIGHT. A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON WILL PUSH EAST THROUGH INDIANA THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS. CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE...RICHMOND...BROOKVILLE ...CONNERSVILLE...VERSAILLES...LAWRENCEBURG...RISING SUN AND WARSAW. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. .END/DIAN-REED
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-230100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 410 PM EDT (310 PM EST) WED JUL 22 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST (900 PM EDT) FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA... WARM MOIST AIR AND AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE ARE COMBINING TO INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER PORTIONS OF INDIANA THROUGH TONIGHT. A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON WILL PUSH EAST THROUGH INDIANA THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS. CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE...RICHMOND...BROOKVILLE ...CONNERSVILLE...VERSAILLES...LAWRENCEBURG...RISING SUN AND WARSAW. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. .END ...CORRECTION FOR EXPIRATION TIME OF THE WATCH... /DIAN-REED
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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.