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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood watch at Apr 28, 2014, 8:41 PM EDT for Clermont County, Hamilton County, Ohio; 10 counties in Kentucky; Ohio County, Switzerland County, Indiana. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2014, 8:41 PM EDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2014, 5:01 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Ohio 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, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Clermont County, OH, Hamilton County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 347 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
- 1019 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.7
- Supercell composite
- 15.6
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 Apr 28, 8:01 PM EDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 8:01 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2:48 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Brown, Clermont | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Brown, Highland | 27 min |
| Apr 29, 3:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Adams, Brown, Clinton, Highland | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 10:25 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | ILN | Adams | 9 hr |
| Apr 29, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Preble | 24 min |
| Apr 29, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Mercer | 25 min |
| Apr 29, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Darke | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Clermont, Highland | 26 min |
| Apr 29, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Highland and 1 more | 43 min |
| Apr 29, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Fayette, Greene, Madison | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway | 51 min |
| Apr 29, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware, Franklin, Union | 62 min |
| Apr 29, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and 2 more | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen | 35 min |
| Apr 29, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Owen | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone, Kenton | 33 min |
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.