Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 2007, 2:38 AM EDT for Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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
- Aug 22, 2007, 2:38 AM EDT (06:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2007, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Van Wert County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1609 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KIWX 220641 FFWIWX OHC161-221000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 238 AM EDT WED AUG 22 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... VAN WERT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 600 AM EDT * AT 236 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES EAST OF CONVOY TO WREN...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF VAN WERT TO 5 MILES EAST OF DECATUR...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... GLENMORE...DULL AND ABANAKA... WETSEL AND OHIO CITY... MIDDLE POINT... JONESTOWN AND VENEDOCIA... CONVERSE AND ELGIN... VAN WERT... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. IN ADDITION...FLOODING OF COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. 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. LAT...LON 4099 8439 4073 8439 4073 8480 4099 8480 TIME...MOT...LOC 0638Z 280DEG 32KT 4091 8457 4080 8476 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KIWX 220852 FFSIWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 449 AM EDT WED AUG 22 2007 OHC161-220859- VAN WERT OH- 449 AM EDT WED AUG 22 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR VAN WERT COUNTY... THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE EXITED THE AREA. COUNTY DISPATCH OFFICIALS HAVE RECEIVED NO NEW REPORTS OF FLOODING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. AS A RESULT...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IF YOU HAVE FLOODING TO REPORT...YOU CAN CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4099 8439 4073 8439 4073 8480 4099 8480 TIME...MOT...LOC 0849Z 280DEG 32KT 4070 8306 4059 8325 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:38 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Putnam | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 8:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen | 3 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.