Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 72, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1998, 10:04 PM EDT for Brown County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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 14, 1998, 10:04 PM EDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1998, 1:05 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 150205 FFWILN OHC015-150505- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1004 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO. * EFFECTIVE UNTIL 105 AM EDT. * THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DUMPED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS BROWN COUNTY THIS EVENING. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE UP TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY SINCE 9 PM EDT. * SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL LIKELY. THIS WILL RESULT IN RAPID RISES ON AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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 14, 8:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 8:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 810 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998 TSTMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACRS SE IN/SW OH...IN NW/SE BAND AHEAD OF MCS PUSHING INTO CNTL IN. ALSO...ANOTHER BAND OF TSRA...SOME SVR...HAS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY ACRS N KY...IN ADVANCE OF WARM FRNT STILL WELL SW OF CWA. FINALLY...TSTMS WELL UNDERWAY ALONG COLD FRNT PUSHING THRU LWR OH VLY. GIVEN CURRNT EVOLUTION OF EVENTS...CATEGORICAL POPS IN ORDER OVERNITE FOR ALL AREAS...INCL FAR NW. ALSO...GIVEN LO FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES/POTENTIAL FOR HVY RAFL...CONTINUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR E CNTL/SE IN. MDL DATA SUGGESTS SFC TRIPLE POINT/ASSOCIATED STRONGEST FORCING WILL AFFECT S SECTIONS OF CWA OVERNITE...SO STRONGLY SUGGEST FLASH FLOOD WATCH BE XTNDED ACRS N KY AND S OH (OH AREA 7). HOWEVER... RAFL POTENTIAL ACRS DAY-CMH AREAS APPRS HIER THAT SUGGESTED BY MDLS... AND MIGHT BE PRUDENT TO XTND FFA INTO OH AREAS 5/6 FOR TONITE. ROWLEY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
823 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM PERRY PARK KY 1 INCH HAIL
06/14/98 OWENLocal storm report, Jun 14, 8:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
823 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM PERRY PARK KY 1 INCH HAIL
06/14/98 OWENLocal storm report, Jun 14, 8:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
853 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0838 PM CRITTENDEN KY .75 INCH HAIL
06/14/98 GRANTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 20 min |
| Jun 14, 11:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams, Scioto | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Montgomery, Preble | 118 min |
| Jun 15, 4:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Darke | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 5:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 6:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Clinton | 46 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.