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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Wilmington, OH

December 16, 20004 counties in Kentucky; 4 counties in Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-12-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-12-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 550 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.