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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 15, 1998Wayne County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1998, 1:27 PM EST for Wayne 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
Jun 15, 1998, 1:27 PM EST (18:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1998, 3:25 PM EST
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 1998-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 672 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 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
672 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.5

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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 Jun 15, 8:40 AM EST, 4 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 8:40 AM EST, 4 hours 47 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
940 AM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

AWIPS ARRIVING...SO PRETTY CHAOTIC HERE THIS AM.

S/W MVNG THRU BASE OF TROF NOW IN ERN IL/WRN IN. 12Z SFC ANLYS SHWG TWO
BNDRYS ACRS CWA...ONE JUST S OF IND TO S OF CMD...OTHER FARTHER N TWD
LIMA AND CAK AREA. S/W ENERGY SEEMS TO BE ENHANCING PCPN ACRS CNTL OH.
DWPTS IN MID 60S ADVECTING INTO MORE SRN BNDRY...BNDRY FCST TO MV
SLOWLY NORTH IN RESPONSE TO SFC LO LIFTING NE. THIS BNDRY SHUD BE THE
FOCUS FOR RW/TRW TDY. 12Z SOUNDING SHOWED KI OF 39 AND PW OF 1.55... SO
VERY JUICY AIR IN PLACE OVR REGION. YSTDY RAINFALL TOTALS...WERE OVER
AN INCH FROM WAYNE TO FRANKLIN CTY IN INDIANA...OVER TO CLINTON AND
FAYETTE COUNTIES IN OHIO. ANOTHER AREA OF OVER AN INCH ACRS OH RVR IN
SRN CWA. FOCUS FOR PCPN SHUD BE FROM EAST CNTL INDIANA OVER TO CMH AREA.
DEFINITELY THINK FFA NEEDED FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIANA AS IS IN FCST NOW.
CNTL OHIO WORKED OVER ALREADY THIS AM...SO MAY NEED FLASH FLOOD WATCH
FOR AN AREA FROM JUST N OF DAY OVER TO CMH ALSO W/ S/W PROGGED TO CROSS
AREA AND MORE ENHANCEMENT IN STORE.

AREA HAS SEEN LAST OF SUNSHINE FOR TDY W/ CLDS TO WEST...SO MOSTLY
CLOUDY. TEMPS LOOK OK BUT CMH CUD REACH MID 70S W/ LTL HELP.

FARINA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 9:58 AM EST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
1058 AM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0227 PM    HAGERSTOWN                IN   FLOODING
06/15/98   WAYNE                          ROADS FLOODED...SR 38
                                          CLOSED

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 9:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNWayne2 hr
Jun 15, 3:25 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNWayne3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 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.