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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 17, 2010Ripley County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2010, 6:45 PM EDT for Ripley County, Indiana. 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
Jul 17, 2010, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2010, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Ripley County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 12:00Z on 2010-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2000 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2010-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2000 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 17, 4:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 4:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
411 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2010

.SYNOPSIS...
TWO MID LEVEL BOUNDARIES ARE LAID OUT OVER THE MID OHIO VALLEY AND
THE LOWER GREAT LAKES REGION THIS AFTERNOON. BOTH OF THE SOUTHWEST
TO NORTHEAST ORIENTED FEATURES ARE SPARKING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
THEM. LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE EAST THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES SUNDAY
NIGHT AND LAY OUT ANOTHER COLD FRONT THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY EARLY
MONDAY.

&&

.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM SUNDAY MORNING/...
CONVECTION WILL BE SCATTERED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND
SHOULD DECREASE LATER THIS EVENING BUT POSSIBLY SEE THE STRONGEST
INDIVIDUAL CELLS PERSIST THROUGH THE NIGHT. DEWPOINTS IN THE LOW
TO MID 70S SOUTHWEST TO UPPER 60S NORTHEAST WILL DICTATE HOW LOW
MIN TEMPS TONIGHT GO.

ZONAL UPPER LEVEL FLOW WILL CONTINUE TO BE HARD PRESSED TO CAPTURE
DETAILS OF S/W AND OR VORT MAXIMA TO DISCERN WHERE STORMS MAY OR
MAY NOT DEVELOP. WITH THAT IN MIND A BROAD BRUSH WAS USED IN THE
PRECIP SCHEME TONIGHT.

&&

.SHORT TERM /6 AM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/...
MODELS WILL CONTINUE TO BE UNDER PERFORMING IN THE NEAR TERM WITH
THE ZONAL UPPER LEVEL FLOW. THEY ARE CAPTURING THE SURFACE LOW
TRACKING EAST ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT BUT DIFFER
SIGNIFICANTLY ON HOW THE BOUNDARY WILL LAY OUT OVER THE OHIO
VALLEY AND ILN CWA. REGARDLESS OF THIS THE REGION WILL SEE AN
INCREASED POTENTIAL FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT INTO
EARLY MONDAY.

BEFORE THIS HOWEVER...THE MID LEVEL CONVERGENCE WILL COMBINE WITH
DAYTIME HEATING TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL BE AT
A HIGHER POTENTIAL DURING THE DAY...PARTICULARLY SOUTHEAST OF
DAYTON AND INTO THE SCIOTO RIVER VALLEY. HAVE LOWERED TEMPERATURES
HERE TO JUST THE MID 80S WITH THE THOUGHT THAT RAIN COOLED OR AT
LEAST SIGNIFICANT CLOUD COVER WOULD LIMIT THE UPPER BOUNDARY ON
HIGHS IN THIS AREA.

ANY STORMS THAT DO OCCUR WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY
HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

&&

.LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/...
MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD. LOW
PRESSURE CENTER IS LOCATED IN WRN NY WITH CDFNT RUNNING BACK SW
INTO THE FA. MODELS STALL THIS FNT ACRS THE FA FOR THE MAJORITY OF
THE PERIOD. BY THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY...GFS BRINGS A H5 WAVE
ACROSS THE NRN PLAINS INTO THE UPPER GREAT LAKES. THIS CAUSES A
MORE SIGNIFICANT LOW TO FORM ON THE GFS. GFS SWINGS CDFNT THRU THE
FA ON SATURDAY. MEANWHILE THE ECMWF AND THE DGEX TO SOME EXTENT
LEAVES THE FNT STATIONARY INTO SATURDAY.

SO WITH THAT ALL SAID. KEPT CHC POPS FOR MUCH OF THE PERIOD. WENT
HIGHER CHC POPS DURING THE DAY VERSUS THE NIGHT.

FOR TEMPS...WENT A MODEL BLEND OF SREF/GFS MOS MONDAY AND TUESDAY
AND A CANADIAN/ECMWF/HPC BLEND FARTHER OUT.

&&

.AVIATION /20Z SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/...
UNSTABLE AIRMASS AROUND THE AREA FOR THIS AFTERNOON. CU FIELD HAS
ALREADY DEVELOPED AND WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP DURING THE
AFTERNOON HOURS. A FEW SHOWERS HAVE STARTED TO POP UP AROUND THE
AREA. EXPECT SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING TO BE SCATTERED AND THEREFORE IT IS DIFFICULT TO
PINPOINT ANY ONE TIME THAT A THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT A TERMINAL.
HAVE MENTION LIMITED TO A PERIOD OF VCSH OR VCTS AND CB.
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AROUND THE AREA WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE LATER THIS
EVENING. CLOUD COVER DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WILL DETERMINE HOW
MUCH FOG DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR. AT THIS POINT HAVE A MENTION IN
AT ALL SITES EXCEPT FOR KDAY AND KCMH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS OF SUNDAY AS WELL.

OUTLOOK...THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY.

&&

.ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OH...NONE.
KY...NONE.
IN...NONE.

&&

SYNOPSIS...FRANKS
NEAR TERM...FRANKS
SHORT TERM...FRANKS
LONG TERM...SITES
AVIATION...NOVAK
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 17, 4:32 AM EDT, 14 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
432 AM EDT SAT JUL 17 2010

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-180845-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-
SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-
PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-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-ROSS-HOCKING-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-
HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO-
432 AM EDT SAT JUL 17 2010

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY. A FEW
OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL
POSSIBLE. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS IS EXPECTED TO BE
LATER THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AND TO THE SOUTHEAST OF INTERSTATE 71.

IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE
STRONGER STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 17, 5:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
521 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0500 PM     HAIL             MCDERMOTT               38.83N 83.07W
07/17/2010  E1.00 INCH       SCIOTO             OH   PUBLIC

            TIME IS ESTIMATED

&&

JF
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 5:09 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNAdams51 min
Jul 17, 7:47 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNClinton28 min
Jul 17, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams, Scioto38 min
Jul 17, 4:52 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNAdams, Scioto3 hr
Jul 17, 5:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNHamilton65 min
Jul 17, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNScioto25 min
Jul 17, 5:26 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNHamilton3 hr
Jul 17, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHamilton27 min
Jul 17, 5:50 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNScioto3 hr
Jul 17, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams, Pike, Scioto51 min
Jul 17, 6:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNAdams, Scioto3 hr
Jul 17, 3:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCarroll, Owen48 min
Jul 17, 3:32 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNCarroll, Gallatin, Owen3 hr
Jul 17, 3:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGrant, Owen, Pendleton31 min
Jul 17, 4:14 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNMason, Robertson46 min
Jul 17, 4:24 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNCampbell36 min
Jul 17, 5:31 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNDearborn, Franklin3 hr
Jul 17, 5:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNRipley3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2010Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.