Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 2002, 9:37 AM EDT for Butler County, Hamilton County, Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 113 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
- May 8, 2002, 9:37 AM EDT (13:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Butler County, OH, Hamilton County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 356 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 476 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 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 081337 FFWILN KYC015-041-077-117-OHC017-061-081530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 934 AM EDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BOONE COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... KENTON COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... GALLATIN COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO... HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO... * UNTIL 1130 AM EDT... * WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE CINCINNATI TRI STATE. UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN SINCE 8 AM...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES EXPECTED IN SOME LOCATIONS THROUGH 1100 AM. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... COVINGTON... ERLANGER... FLORENCE... INDEPENDENCE... CINCINNATI... HAMILTON... OXFORD... READING... A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 10:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont | 112 min |
| May 8, 10:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Brown, Highland | 116 min |
| May 8, 11:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams, Pike, Ross | 114 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2002Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.