Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2003, 4:05 AM EDT for Boone County, Grant County, Kenton County, Kentucky. It was in force for 115 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
- May 10, 2003, 4:05 AM EDT (08:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2003, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, KY, Grant County, KY, Kenton County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:04 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, 8.1 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
- 3057 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KILN 100804 FFWILN KYC015-081-117-101000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 405 AM EDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BOONE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... KENTON COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... GRANT COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 600 AM EDT... * SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING. SINCE 3 AM EDT...1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN BOONE AND KENTON COUNTIES AND NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 6 AM EDT. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... CRITTENDEN... VERONA... WALTON... KENTON... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallatin | 113 min |
| May 10, 4:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 29 min |
| May 10, 4:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 28 min |
| May 10, 4:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 33 min |
| May 10, 5:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallatin | 90 min |
| May 10, 9:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 3 hr |
| May 10, 11:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone | 58 min |
| May 10, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 42 min |
| May 10, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 40 min |
| May 10, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 52 min |
| May 10, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Lewis, Mason | 30 min |
| May 10, 5:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Lewis | 30 min |
| May 10, 5:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Lewis | 24 min |
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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.