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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 26, 1998Fayette County, Franklin County, Union County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Apr 26, 1998, 5:07 PM EST for Fayette County, Franklin County, Union County, Indiana. It was in force for 118 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
Apr 26, 1998, 5:07 PM EST (22:07 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 1998, 7:05 PM EST
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Union County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-04-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 488 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
488 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
480 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Apr 26, 1:43 PM EST, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 1:43 PM EST, 3 hours 24 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
243 PM EDT SUN APR 26 1998

19Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY SLOWLY SINKING SWD
ACROSS CNTRL OH.  KILN 88D SHOWED DEVELOPING TSRA ON BOTH SIDES OF THE
FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHERE THE SFC RUC SHOWED CAPES NR 1000 J/KG. THE
HIGHEST CAPES WERE A RESULT OF DEWPOINTS POOLING ALONG THE FRONT.

AN UNSTABE ATMOSPHERE WL STILL BE PRESENT BOTH N AND S OF THE FNT AT
00Z.  MODELS SHOW STRONG LLVL CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT AND SOME
UPPER LVL DIVERGENCE.  THUS...WOULD PREFER TO KEEP EVENING TSRA IN FCST
FOR ALL OF FA...THEN JUST -SHRA AFT MIDNIGHT.  FNT WL DROP QUICKLY SWD
OVERNIGHT SO PRECIP WL END FM N TO S.

SKIES WL BE CLEARING EARLY MON ACROSS NRN FA AND WL SPREAD SWD THRU THE
AM HOURS.  SUGGEST A MENTION OF AM CLOUDS IN THE SRN FA WITH M/SUNNY
OTHERWISE.

MON NIGHT AND TUE SHOULD BE DRY AND M/CLR.

MOS TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE.

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.