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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 24, 2002, 3:52 AM EST for Adams County, Brown County, Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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
- Jan 24, 2002, 3:52 AM EST (08:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2002, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Scioto County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 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 240852 FFWILN OHC001-015-145-241200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 348 AM EST THU JAN 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN OHIO... ADAMS COUNTY IN OHIO... SCIOTO COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 700 AM EST... * AT 348 AM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN THROUGH GEORGETOWN...WEST UNION AND PORTSMOUTH. THE HEAVY RAIN IS OCCURRING OVER AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... LUCASVILLE... GEORGETOWN... NEW BOSTON... PORTSMOUTH... ROSEMOUNT... SOUTH WEBSTER... WEST UNION... WHEELERSBURG... WINCHESTER... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. HEAVY RAINFALL ALSO OBSCURES VISION...MAKING IT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE IF THE ROAD AHEAD OF YOU IS FLOODED. IF CAUGHT NEAR OR IN FLASH FLOODING ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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. $$ BC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 7:18 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams, Brown, Scioto | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.