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Flood Watch 2, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 10, 200910 counties in Ohio; 12 counties in Kentucky; 5 counties in Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flood watch at Jun 10, 2009, 3:48 PM EDT for 10 counties in Ohio; 12 counties in Kentucky; 5 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Jun 10, 2009, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 27 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2009, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 10, 2009, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired
Jun 11, 2009, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
27 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Flood severity
None
All 27 counties

Dearborn County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 372 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2009-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2072 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2009-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 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
2072 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Jun 9, 7:44 PM EDT, 20 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 7:44 PM EDT, 20 hours 4 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 4:07 PM EDT, 23 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
407 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009

INZ050-058-059-066-073-074-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-
070>072-102015-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-HARDIN-MERCER-
AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-
MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-FAYETTE OH-
PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-
407 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL
INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF
OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP ON WEDNESDAY.
INSTABILITY WILL NOT BE AS STRONG AS TUESDAY...BUT WIND FIELDS
WILL BE MORE FAVORABLE. THERE WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...PRIMARILY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

INZ075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ073-074-077>082-088-102015-
OHIO-SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-
PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-ROSS-HOCKING-HAMILTON-
CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO-
407 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO
AND SOUTHWEST OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG A WEAK COLD FRONT
ACROSS SOUTHERN OHIO. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME
SEVERE THIS EVENING...WITH WINDS UP TO 60 MPH AND HAIL UP TO THE
SIZE OF QUARTERS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP ON WEDNESDAY.
INSTABILITY WILL NOT BE AS STRONG AS TUESDAY...BUT WIND FIELDS
WILL BE MORE FAVORABLE. THUS ONCE AGAIN THERE WILL BE THE
POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...PRIMARILY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
AND EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 1:43 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNBoone, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Pendleton3 hr
Jun 10, 8:07 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNDearborn, Ripley3 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2009Flood Watches in Ohio, 2009Flood Watches in Indiana, 2009Every flood watch in 2009

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.