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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Apr 24, 2002, 7:56 PM EST for Wayne County, Indiana. It was in force for 2 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
- Apr 24, 2002, 7:56 PM EST (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2002, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 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 250101 FFWILN INC177-250400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 756 PM EST WED APR 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA... * UNTIL 1100 PM EST... * WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 645 PM EST...WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH EXPECTED THROUGH 9 PM EST. * SOME STREAMS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED BY FLASH FLOODING ARE... WHITEWATER RIVER... MARTINDALE CREEK... LICK CREEK... * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... CAMBRIDGE CITY... EAST GERMANTOWN... CENTERVILLE... FOUNTAIN CITY... RICHMOND... 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. $$ RYAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fayette | 2 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:48 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 8:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Wayne | 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.