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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 29, 2006Switzerland County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2006, 12:44 AM EDT for Switzerland County, Indiana. It was in force for 76 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 2006, 12:44 AM EDT (04:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2006, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
76 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Switzerland County, IN

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:45 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 00:00Z on 2006-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 766 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2006-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
766 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KILN 290445
FFWILN
INC155-290600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1244 AM EDT THU JUN 29 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SWITZERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA

* UNTIL 200 AM EDT

* AT 1241 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THAT THUNDERSTORMS HAD PRODUCED HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED   
  AREA. RADAR ESTIMATED 3 TO 3.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 11 
  PM.

* HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA WITH ANOTHER
  INCH POSSIBLE THROUGH 130 AM EDT. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE 
  RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...ALLENSVILLE...
AVONBURG...BEAR BRANCH...CENTER SQUARE...EAST ENTERPRISE...
FAIRVIEW...FLORENCE AND JACKSONVILLE.

HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS RAPIDLY. DO NOT DRIVE
YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH ON THE THE ROAD. IT ONLY
TAKES TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER TO CARRY AWAY MOST SPORT UTILITY
VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO REACH YOUR
DESTINATION OR WAIT UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. REMEMBER...MOST FLOOD
RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

LAT...LON 3890 8482 3877 8491 3881 8517 3891 8519

$$
 TIPTON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNUnion24 min
Jun 28, 11:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNDearborn, Ohio, Ripley2 hr
Jun 29, 12:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNOhio, Switzerland33 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006

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.