Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 2002, 6:22 PM EDT for Dearborn County, Ohio County, Ripley County, Indiana. 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 28, 2002, 6:22 PM EDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2002, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dearborn County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KILN 282222 FFWILN INC029-115-137-290015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 520 PM EST TUE MAY 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DEARBORN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA... RIPLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA... OHIO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA... * UNTIL 715 PM EST... * WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN DILLSBORO...FRIENDSHIP AND BEAR BRANCH. UP TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 4 PM EST...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES EXPECTED THROUGH 6 PM. * SOME STREAMS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED BY FLASH FLOODING ARE... LAUGHERY CREEK... * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... DILLSBORO... MOORES HILL... 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. 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 4:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ripley | 57 min |
| May 28, 4:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ripley | 116 min |
| May 28, 6:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley | 55 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.