Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002

Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Northern Indiana

May 12, 2002Fulton County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 2002, 11:00 AM EDT for Fulton County, Ohio. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 2002, 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 2002, 1:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fulton County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:59 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2002-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2002-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 449 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
427 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
449 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
467 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 
WGUS53 KIWX 121500
FFWFWA
OHC051-121700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1057 AM EDT SUN MAY 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FULTON COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 100 PM EDT

* AT 1057 AM EDT...EMERGENCY MANAGERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN THE 
  FAYETTE AREA.  RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT AROUND 3 INCHES OF    
  RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THS AREA SINCE 5 AM EDT..

* THE MOST SEVERE FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
  FAYETTE
  DENSON
  ZONE

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
NORTHERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 4168 8434 4149 8434 4154 8383 4168 8393

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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.