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Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood watch at Aug 10, 2013, 3:00 AM EDT for Adams County, Scioto County, Ohio; 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2013, 3:00 AM EDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2013, 6:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bracken County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Adams County, OH, Scioto County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood watch went out at Aug 9, 4:25 PM EDT, 10 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 4:25 PM EDT, 10 hours 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 11:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Owen | 115 min |
| Aug 10, 2:29 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Lewis | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:37 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Bracken, Mason, Pendleton, Robertson | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:21 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Lewis | 2 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.