Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998

Flash Flood Warning 89, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 27, 1998Licking County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1998, 5:01 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, 5:01 AM EDT (09:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1998, 8:00 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 09:04 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, 9.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1998-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2556 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 270901
FFWILN
OHC089-271200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
501 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LICKING COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO.

* EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM EDT.

* AT 500 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATED THAT OVER
  6 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE FRIDAY EVENING NEAR FALLSBURG.
  OVER 4 INCHES OF THE RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE MIDNIGHT.  RADAR
  INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO LICKING
  COUNTY...ESPECIALLY NEAR FALLSBURG THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING
  HOURS.  AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR
  FALLSBURG WITH LESSER AMOUNTS ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE COUNTY.


* THIS HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE CREEKS AND STREAMS TO RISE OUT OF
  THEIR BANKS.  THIS MAY BECOME A VERY SERIOUS SITUATION.

IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
TtO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING
WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

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, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:57 AM EDT, 2 hours 4 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, 11:16 PM EDT, 5 hours 45 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, 3 hours 32 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 8:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin51 min
Jun 26, 10:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield45 min
Jun 26, 11:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHocking45 min
Jun 27, 12:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLicking44 min
Jun 27, 3:47 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNLicking3 hr
Jun 27, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDelaware59 min
Jun 27, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLicking58 min
Jun 27, 7:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield57 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.