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Flash Flood Warning 85, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 22, 1998Adams County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1998, 6:15 PM EDT for Adams 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 22, 1998, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1998, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Adams County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 71 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 571 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 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 Jun 22, 2:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
245 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

SQUALL LINE POISED TO ENTER SE IN ATTM.  HIEST CAPES AOA 4000 NR
FTK.  SAT TOPS HAVE BEEN COOLG STEADILY WITH THE STGST STORMS
PROPAGATG ON THE SRN END OF THE COMPLEX...NEAREST THE MOST UNSTABLE
AIR.  XPCT SVR STORMS FOR FAR SW OH/NC KY/SE IN WITH MAIN THREAT
DAMAGING WINDS DUE TO LOW LVL THTA-E DIFF OF 44...WHEN 20 IS THE
TYPICAL THRESHOLD FOR A GOOD CHC OF WIND DAMAGE WITH STORMS.  THESE
STORMS WILL MOVE THRU OUR CWA THRU 00Z.  VILS ALREADY NR 60 AND
OUTFLOW BNDRYS SHOWG UP ACROSS KIND RADAR.

ETA TAKES VORT MAX THRU CNTL/NRN OH TNGT FOLLOWED BY NVA/RIDGG.
NEED LIKELY POPS FOR TNGT WITH SVR POT FOR AT LEAST EARLY TNGT WITH
CURRENT CONVECTION.  COULD SEE MORNG TSRA ACROSS CMH/PMH AREAS ON
TUE BUT DRYING TO OCCUR.  RIDGE TO REMAIN INTACT ACROSS CWA FOR WED
FOR DRY WX...AND VERY WARM TEMPS AND HUMID.

1ST WARNING READY TO COME OUT SO WL COORD REST OF FCST WITH CLE OVR
PHONE.

CVG  72/89/70/91  7/2/1/1
DAY  70/87/69/89  7/1/1/1
CMH  71/88/69/90  6/3/1/1

SANDLER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
457 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0450 PM    OWENTON                   KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   OWEN                           TREES DOWN JUST S OF
                                          OWENTON

0453 PM    OWENTON                   KY   50 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/98   OWEN                           55-60 MPH WINDS JUST NORTH
                                          OF OWENTON

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
503 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0458 PM    NEWTOWN                   OH   52 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/98   HAMILTON                       SPOTTER IN NEWTOWN
                                          REPORTED 55-60 MPH WIND
                                          GUST.

JOHNSTONE

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:31 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
531 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0515 PM    FALMOUTH                  KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   PENDLETON                      LARGE TREES DOWNED IN
                                          FALMOUTH AND PEACH GROVE

WILKINSON

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:46 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
546 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0541 PM    BATAVIA                   OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   CLERMONT                       LARGE TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN.

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:49 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
549 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0545 PM    MT OLIVET                 KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   ROBERTSON                      LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN IN
                                          MT OLIVET

Local storm report, Jun 22, 6:00 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
600 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0520 PM    MAINEVILLE                OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   WARREN                         LARGE TREES DOWN IN
                                          MAINVILLE AND LANDEN AREA.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Warren	43 min
Jun 22, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	34 min
Jun 22, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	39 min
Jun 22, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown	55 min
Jun 22, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams	44 min
Jun 22, 6:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Adams	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1998 Every 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.