Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 89, NWS Wilmington, OH
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.
- 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
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 DOWNThe 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, 3:47 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
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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.