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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 28, 2002Ripley County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 2002, 3:19 PM EST for Ripley County, Indiana. It was in force for 116 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 28, 2002, 3:19 PM EST (20:19 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2002, 5:15 PM EST
In force
116 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ripley County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 2002-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 341 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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 282019
FFWILN
INC137-282215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
318 PM EST TUE MAY 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  RIPLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA...

* UNTIL 515 PM EST...

* WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHWEST RIPLEY COUNTY NEAR 
  NAPOLEON. RADAR INDICATED OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THIS 
  AREA BETWEEN 2 PM AND 3 PM EST. AN ADDITIONAL 2 INCHES CAN BE  
  EXPECTED IN THIS AREA THROUGH 4 PM EST.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...
  BATESVILLE...
  OSGOOD...

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.

STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR ANY FURTHER STATEMENTS
OR WARNINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 3:18 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNRipley57 min
May 28, 5:20 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNDearborn, Ohio, Ripley55 min
May 28, 5:22 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNDearborn, Ohio, Ripley113 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.