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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2000, 11:29 PM EDT for Owen County, Kentucky. 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
- Aug 9, 2000, 11:29 PM EDT (03:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Owen County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 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
- 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 100330 FFWILN KYC187-100630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1129 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... OWEN COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 230 AM EDT... * HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS OWEN COUNTY...HOWEVER RUNOFF IS CONTINUING TO REACH AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS CAUSING RAPID RISES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATES THAT A LARGE PART OF OWEN COUNTY RECEIVED 5 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 8 PM. COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED U.S. HIGHWAY 127 HAS BEEN CLOSED SOUTH OF OWENTON WITH 10 INCHES OF RAIN REPORTED OVER THE ROADWAY. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... OWENTON... LONG RIDGE... PERRY PARK... MONTEREY... MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL AS WATER COVERED ROADWAYS AT NIGHT ARE HARD TO DETECT. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO 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. $$ TIPTON9
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, 10:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Carroll | 118 min |
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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.