Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2000, 10:32 PM EDT for Carroll County, Kentucky. It was in force for 118 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, 10:32 PM EDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 100237 FFWILN KYC041-100430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1032 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 1230 AM EDT... AT 1030 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT FROM 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER MUCH OF CARROLL COUNTY SINCE 9 PM EDT. OVER AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH 1130 PM. * SOME LOCATIONS WHERE FLOODING IS LIKELY INCLUDE... CARROLLTON... PRESTONVILLE... 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. $$ DIAN-REED
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 | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 9:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen, Pendleton | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 11:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Owen | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000
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.