Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT for Grant County, Owen County, Pendleton County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grant County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KILN 100130 FFWILN KYC081-187-191-100200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 930 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GRANT COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... PENDLETON COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... OWEN COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT... * AT 923 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS GRANT...PENDLETON AND OWEN COUNTIES. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED THIS RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AND WAS EXITING GRANT AND PENDLETON COUNTIES. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT OWEN COUNTY THROUGH 10 PM. RUN OFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO COLLECT IN AREA STREAMS AND LOW SPOTS...CAUSING THE STREAMS TO EXCEED BANKFULL AND DANGEROUS DRIVING CONTITIONS. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... WILLIAMSTOWN... OWENTON... FALMOUTH... DRY RIDGE... BUTLER... A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. 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. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ TIPTON
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 Aug 9, 8:55 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 8:55 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 855 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 TSTM ACTVTY TRYING TO WIND DOWN ACRS AREA WITH STGST STORMS NOW ACRS FAR S. WL GO AHD AND ISSUE REG ZONES A LTL ERLY TO TRY AND CLR OUT MORE OF WATCH 669 AND CLEAN UP WORDING ACRS THE N. TRAINING NOT AS IMPRESSIVE NOW SO FLOODING THREAT LOOKS TO BE MINIMAL BUT WL PRBLY HANG ON TO FFA ACRS SE THRU MIDNGT AS THEY CUD STILL SEE SOME ISOLD PBLMS. .ILN...FFA THRU MIDNT FOR KYZ097>100-OHZ078-079-081-088. LOTT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Gallatin | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen | 67 min |
| Aug 9, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Robertson | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Mason | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 9:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen, Pendleton | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 10:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Carroll | 118 min |
| Aug 9, 11:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Owen | 3 hr |
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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.