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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 20, 2002Lewis County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Mar 20, 2002, 10:49 AM EST for Lewis County, Kentucky. 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
Mar 20, 2002, 10:49 AM EST (15:49 UTC)
Expired
Mar 20, 2002, 12:45 PM EST
In force
116 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lewis County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:49 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 2002-03-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-03-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 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 201549
FFWILN
KYC135-201745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1045 AM EST WED MAR 20 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS REISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LEWIS COUNTY IN KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 1245 PM EST...

* HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS THE AREA AND RUNOFF IS REACHING
  AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS CAUSING RAPID RISES.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...
  TOLLESBORO...
  VANCEBURG...
  CAMP DIX...

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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 20, 5:52 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNLewis2 hr
Mar 20, 8:48 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNLewis117 min
Mar 20, 8:52 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNLewis113 min
Mar 20, 8:53 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNLewis112 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 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.