Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2003, 6:06 AM EDT for Boone County, Campbell County, Kenton County, Kentucky. It was in force for 114 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
- Aug 2, 2003, 6:06 AM EDT (10:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2003, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Kenton County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 572 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KILN 021006 FFWILN KYC015-037-117-021200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 606 AM EDT SAT AUG 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BOONE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... CAMPBELL COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... KENTON COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 800 AM EDT... * WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER FAR NORTHERN KENTUCKY. RAINFALL ESITMATES UP TO TWO INCHES IN AN HOUR ALONG THE I-275 LOOP. BETWEEN 6 AND 7 AM...EXPECT AN ADDITIONAL INCH AND A HALF TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN. THIS WILL LEAD TO FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN URBAN AREAS. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE... ALEXANDRIA... COLD SPRING... COVINGTON... ERLANGER... FLORENCE... INDEPENDENCE... SILVER GROVE... SOUTHGATE... WILDER... 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant, Pendleton | 63 min |
| Aug 2, 4:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 54 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.