Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 2002, 10:23 AM EDT for Clermont County, Ohio; Campbell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 112 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, 10:23 AM EDT (14:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Campbell County, KY, Clermont County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 379 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
- 793 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KILN 081423 FFWILN KYC037-OHC025-081615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1021 AM EDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CAMPBELL COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... CLERMONT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO... * UNTIL 1215 PM EDT... * WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED COUNTIES. UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER CAMPBELL AND CLERMONT COUNTIES SINCE 930 AM...WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH EXPECTED THROUGH 1130 AM. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... ALEXANDRIA... COLD SPRING... HIGHLAND HEIGHTS... BATAVIA... MILFORD... 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 9:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler, Hamilton | 113 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 Ohio, 2002Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 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.