Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 2001, 4:54 PM EDT for Ross County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 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
- May 18, 2001, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ross County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 1152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 182057 FFWILN OHC141-182300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 454 PM EDT FRI MAY 18 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ROSS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO... * UNTIL 700 PM EDT... * HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS ROSS COUNTY THIS EVENING. AS MUCH AS 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN TODAY ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL INCH IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR ROSS COUNTY. NUMEROUS ROADS ARE CLOSED ACROSS THE COUNTY. THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE THE EXISTING FLOODING. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... BAINBRIDGE... CHILLICOTHE... FRANKFORT... 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. $$ SEW/JDR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 12:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton, Fayette | 52 min |
| May 18, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler | 45 min |
| May 18, 2:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ross | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clinton, Fayette | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 62 min |
| May 18, 3:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Hocking, Pickaway | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Brown, Clermont, Highland | 3 hr |
| May 18, 4:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 3 hr |
| May 18, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike | 32 min |
| May 18, 6:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams, Scioto | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.