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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2003, 11:07 PM EDT for Mercer County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 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
- Jul 4, 2003, 11:07 PM EDT (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2003, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mercer County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:07 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1393 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KILN 050306 FFWILN OHC107-050700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1107 PM EDT FRI JUL 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MERCER COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 300 AM EDT... * THREE TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY TONIGHT. THIS HAS CAUSED SOILS TO BECOME SATURATED. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AT TIMES WILL MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTY THROUGH 3 AM EDT. AS A RESULT...AN ADDITIONAL TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE LIKELY. CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL BECOME INUNDATED WITH WATER. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... CELINA... COLDWATER... FORT RECOVERY... ROCKFORD... ST. HENRY... A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO SAFELY CROSS. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. $$ RANDALL/HICKMAN
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KILN 050403 FFSILN OHC107-050700- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1202 AM EDT SAT JUL 5 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MERCER COUNTY UNTIL 300 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OF 3 TO 5 INCHES OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MERCER COUNTY TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN ACCUMULATION OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WILL RESULT IN WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING ACROSS THE COUNTY OVERNIGHT. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... CELINA... COLDWATER... FORT RECOVERY... ROCKFORD... ST. HENRY... AT 1150 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED HIGH WATER OVER NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS. NEVER ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH A FLOODED ROAD OR AROUND HIGH WATER SIGNS. MORE THAN HALF OF FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. IT ONLY TAKES BETWEEN ONE AND TWO FEET OF WATER TO FLOAT A CAR OR TRUCK. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. HEAVY RAIN OBSCURES VISION AND MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO SEE WATER ON THE ROAD. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ HICKMAN/RANDALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin, Logan | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 64 min |
| Jul 4, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 55 min |
| Jul 4, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Highland | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 1:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Darke | 4 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.