Alert archive / Ohio / Flood Watches in 2013
Flood Watch 3, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flood watch at Apr 11, 2013, 3:54 AM EDT for 8 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Apr 11, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 2013, 3:54 AM EDT (07:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 11, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2013, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Auglaize County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Logan County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 325 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
- 173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1067 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 Apr 10, 7:36 PM EDT, 8 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 7:36 PM EDT, 8 hours 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 10, 10:47 AM EDT, 17 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1047 AM EDT WED APR 10 2013 INZ050-058-059-066-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-070>074- 111500- WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-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- 1047 AM EDT WED APR 10 2013 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE ALONG A STATIONARY FRONT OVER NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN OHIO...RESULTING IN A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY INTO TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL PUSH ACROSS OUR AREA THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH MIDDAY THURSDAY. STRONG LOW TO MID LEVEL WINDS AND LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY WILL ALLOW THESE STORMS TO BECOME ORGANIZED. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AND THURSDAY. INZ073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ077>082-088-111500- RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON- CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-HAMILTON- CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO- 1047 AM EDT WED APR 10 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND SOUTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER LOW AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL PUSH ACROSS OUR AREA THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH MIDDAY THURSDAY. STRONG LOW TO MID LEVEL WINDS AND LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY WILL ALLOW THESE STORMS TO BECOME ORGANIZED. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THURSDAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 8:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Hocking | 31 min |
| Apr 10, 9:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Logan | 25 min |
| Apr 10, 10:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Hardin, Logan, Mercer, Shelby and 1 more | 111 min |
| Apr 11, 3:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Preble | 54 min |
| Apr 11, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Lewis | 54 min |
Nearby
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.