Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 1998, 12:54 AM EDT for Allen County, Van Wert 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
- Jul 22, 1998, 12:54 AM EDT (04:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1998, 3:55 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allen County, OH, Van Wert County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:53 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 1651 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 KFWA 220456 FFWFWA INC003-069-179-183-OHC003-161-220755- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1154 PM EST TUE JUL 21 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... ALLEN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA HUNTINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA WELLS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA WHITLEY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA ALLEN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO VAN WERT COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO * UNTIL 255 AM EST (355 AM EDT) * AT 1140 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM FROM NORTH MANCHESTER TO HUNTINGTON TO BLUFFTON TO FORT WAYNE TO VAN WERT TO LIMA... MOVING JUST SOUTH OF EAST AT 25 MPH. * VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD BEEN REPORTED IN MANY AREAS. OBSERVERS IN FORT WAYNE REPORTED 3 INCHES IN THE LAST HOUR ALONE. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO REDEVELOP ON THE WESTERN FLANK OF THIS LINE OF STORMS AND WILL DROP ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN OVER THE NEXT 2 HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES IS POSSIBLE. IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS... BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED! DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! TEH/BFO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Henry, Williams | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Paulding, Putnam | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 10:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Van Wert | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Henry | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 10:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Paulding, Putnam | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 11:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Van Wert | 64 min |
| Jul 21, 11:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 64 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.