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Flash Flood Warning 88, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 27, 1998Licking County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1998, 3:47 AM EDT for Licking 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 27, 1998, 3:47 AM EDT (07:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1998, 6:45 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Licking County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:49 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 2556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILN 270747 RRA
FFWILN
OHC089-271045-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
347 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS FOR...
  LICKING COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO.

* EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM EDT.

* AT 345 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATED THAT OVER
  5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE FRIDAY EVENING ACROSS THE
  NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE COUNTY NEAR FALLSBURG.  MORE THAN 3
  INCHES HAD FALLEN SINCE MIDNIGHT.

* RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD LICKING
  COUNTY.  AN ADDITIONAL 2 INCHES OR MORE OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE
  ACROSS PARTS OF THE COUNTY...ESPECIALLY NEAR FALLSBURG.  THIS
  RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF INTO AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS
  CAUSING THEM TO RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
ACT QUICKLY.

WILKINSON

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 27, 2:57 AM EDT, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:57 AM EDT, 50 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
257 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998

05Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED A NEARLY STATIONARY FNT ACROSS NRN OH WHICH
EXTENDED BACK INTO THE MS VLY.  HOWEVER...THE TSRA ACTIVITY WAS FORMING
N OF THE FNT OVER WI AND THEN TRACKING ALONG A MESOSCALE BOUNDARY AND
WITH THE 850-300 MB THICKNESS LINES INTO CNTRL OH.  RAINFALL AMOUNTS
HAVE BEEN LOCALLY HEAVY BUT EACH BAND OF TSRA SEEMS TO BE PUSHING
SLOWLY NEWD SO IMMEDIATE FLOOD THREAT IS MINIMAL OVR LICKING COUNTY
THIS AM.

XPCT SCT TSRA TO CONTINUE ALONG THE MESOSCALE BOUNDARY PAST DAYBREAK
BEFORE WEAKENING.  HOWEVER...BOUNDARY WL STAY INTACT AND BE THE FOCUS
FOR MORE TSRA THIS PM AND TONIGHT.  ETA SHOWS STRONG INSTABILITY AND
HIGH PRECIP WATER VALUES ACROSS FA THRU SUN.  IT ALSO SHOWS A STRONG
AREA OF UPPER DIVERGENCE WITH SOME LLVL CONVERGENCE FOCUSED VC CMH BY
00Z SUN.  THUS...XPCT AN ORGANIZED AREA OF TSRA TO DEVELOP ON NERN
FRINGE OF FA SO WL NEED CHC POPS FOR NERN FRINGE COUNTIES TODAY AND
TONIGHT. OTHERWISE...TSRA WL BE WDLY SCT AT BEST WITH LACK OF FOCUS.

XPCT BEST CHC TSRA FM AOH TO CMH AGAIN ON SUN WITH MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS
ELSEWHERE.

OTHERWISE HAZY HOT AND HUMID CONDITONS WL CONTINUE.

CVG 93/75/93 000
DAY 92/75/92 200
CMH 90/74/90 443
PMH 92/75/92 200

WILKINSON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 10:43 PM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
1043 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

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

1041 PM    LANCASTER                 OH   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   FAIRFIELD                      COUNTY COMMS REPORTS
                                          GOLFBALL HAIL CURRENTLY
                                          FALLING JSUT NORTH OF
                                          LANCASTER.

Local storm report, Jun 26, 11:16 PM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
1116 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

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

1104 PM    CARROLL                   OH   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/98   FAIRFIELD                      SPOTTER NEAR HIGHWAY 32
                                          BETWEEN WINCHESTER AND
                                          CARROLL REPORTED ESTIMATED
                                          WIND GUST TO 70 MPH.

Local storm report, Jun 27, 1:29 AM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
129 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998

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

1220 AM    NEWARK                    OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/27/98   LICKING                        NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	51 min
Jun 26, 10:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	45 min
Jun 26, 11:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking	45 min
Jun 27, 12:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	44 min
Jun 27, 5:01 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Licking	3 hr
Jun 27, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	59 min
Jun 27, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	58 min
Jun 27, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	57 min

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.