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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Dec 16, 2000, 2:44 PM EST for 4 counties in Kentucky; 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 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
- Dec 16, 2000, 2:44 PM EST (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 8:15 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bracken County, KY, Mason County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Highland County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 550 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 543 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 161955 CCA FFWILN KYC023-161-191-201-OHC001-015-025-071-170115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 244 PM EST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... MASON COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... PENDLETON COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... ROBERTSON COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... BRACKEN COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... ADAMS COUNTY IN OHIO... CLERMONT COUNTY IN OHIO... BROWN COUNTY IN OHIO... HIGHLAND COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 815 PM EST... * 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING OVER THE WARNED AREA. WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING AN ADDITIONAL AREA OF HEAVY RAIN MOVING BACK INTO THE REGION...WHICH COULD DUMP AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN THROUGH EARLY EVENING. MANY STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE ALREADT AT BANKFULL...AND THE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL QUICKLY CAUSE FLOODING. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... WILLIAMSBURG... WEST UNION... MANCHESTER... HILLSBORO... GEORGETOWN... BATAVIA... AMELIA... MAYSVILLE... LEWISBURG... FALMOUTH... A 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. $$ TPJ
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 Dec 16, 2:35 PM EST, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 2:35 PM EST, 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 235 PM EST SAT DEC 16 2000 SFC LOW IN CNTRL QUEBEC AND PULLING NE. BEST CAA PULLING EAST...WTH TMPS ACRS FA NEARLY STEADY. GUSTS CALMING DOWN A BIT ACRS IN...BUT WNDS STILL FM 15 TO 25 KTS WL KEEP A NEED FOR WND CHILL ADVIS FOR ENTIRE FA THROUGH ERLY TNGT. WL WORD ZFP TO MTN WNDS DIMINISHING BY MIDNIGHT...MAY BE EVEN A LTL EARLIER. UPR LVLS DRY OUT...BUT STILL A LOT OF LL MSTR LINGERING. MO CLDY TNGT. FWC AND FAN TOO WRM TNGT...EVEN WTH WK WAA BEGINNING. AM LIKING COOLER FAN NUMBERS...BUT WL EVEN CUT THOSE A BIT. JUST WHEN YOU THINK IT/S OVER...THE GENERAL PATTERN REMAINS ACTIVE...WTH YET ANOTHER VORT APCHNG LATE MON. RDG PASSES JUST S OF FA DURING DAY...WTH NEXT S/WV FRM ROCKIES DEEPENING AS IT HEADS ACRS PLAINS AND MID MS VLY. BY THE TIME IT REALLY HITS FA JST BEFORE 00Z TUE...THERE/S PRETTY GOOD UPWD MTN AND 8H LLJ OF 45KTS. PSBL ADVISORY CRITERIA FM THIS SYSTEM NEEDED WTH NXT PACKAGE...WL BE A QUICK SHOT THOUGH...AS S/WV SEEMING TO SPEED ALNG IN QUICK FLOW. AM PREFERING A MIX BTWN AVN/ETA...WHICH ARE BOTH A LTL STRONGER WTH UPWD MTN AND SLIGHTLY QUICKER THAN NGM. FOR TUE...SHSN WL LINGER MAINLY IN NRN GROUPS UNDER NW FLOW. .ILN...NPW FOR WIND CHILL ALL ZONES THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. DIAN-REED
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.