Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2002, 10:46 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Hocking County, Pickaway County, Ohio. It was in force for 119 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
- Jul 9, 2002, 10:46 PM EDT (02:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2002, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fairfield County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Pickaway County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1949 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1120 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KILN 100246 FFWILN OHC045-073-129-100445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1041 PM EDT TUE JUL 9 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN OHIO... PICKAWAY COUNTY IN OHIO... HOCKING COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 1245 AM EDT... * WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT BETWEEN 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER EASTERN PICKAWAY...SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD AND WESTERN HOCKING COUNTY THIS EVENING. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BRING AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN TO THE AREA BY 2 AM. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... ASHVILLE... BALTIMORE... BREMEN... FAIRFIELD BEACH... LANCASTER... LOGAN... MILLERSPORT... PLEASANTVILLE... SOUTH BLOOMFIELD... WILLIAMSPORT... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KILN 100449 FFSILN OHC045-073-129-100515- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1248 AM EDT WED JUL 10 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FAIRFIELD...PICKAWAY AND HOCKING COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 10:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fayette | 36 min |
| Jul 10, 2:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Licking | 93 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.