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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood watch at May 12, 2014, 12:00 AM EDT for 12 counties in Ohio; Fayette County, Union County, Wayne County, Indiana. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2014, 12:00 AM EDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2014, 7:59 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Fayette County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Darke County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Logan County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 556 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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 May 11, 8:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 8:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 817 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2014 .SYNOPSIS... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND ON MONDAY AS MULTIPLE DISTURBANCES WORK ACROSS THE REGION. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON TUESDAY AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM MONDAY MORNING/... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE STRONG TO SEVERE AND THEREFORE WILL CONTINUE MENTIONING THE SEVERE THREAT IN THE HWO. THERE WILL BE A LULL OR DECREASE IN PRECIPITATION DURING PART OF THE NIGHT. BY THE END OF THE NEAR TERM HOWEVER MODELS ARE INDICATING THAT A DECAYING MCS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE AREA. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/... DECAYING MCS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY. ALTHOUGH THERE IS SOME DISAGREEMENT WITH THE MODELS ON THE STRENGTH OF THIS FEATURE THERE IS ENOUGH CONFIDENCE TO INCREASE PRECIPITATION CHANCES FOR THE MORNING AND MID DAY HOURS ON MONDAY. WITH THIS PRECIPITATION MOVING INTO THE AREA HAVE ALSO INCREASED CLOUD COVER AND DECREASED TEMPERATURES FOR MONDAY. THERE WILL BE A LATE DAY RECOVERY IN TEMPERATURES. && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION ON TUESDAY AND MOVE INTO THE FORECAST AREA TUESDAY NIGHT. EXPECT THIS BOUNDARY TO STALL OUT ACROSS THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY. SO CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE THROUGH THE DAY TUESDAY AND CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY EVENING WITH GREATER COVERAGE IN THE WEST CLOSER TO THE BOUNDARY. APPEARS THAT THERE MAY BE A LULL IN ACTIVITY LATER TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING AS INSTABILITY DECREASES TO A DIURNAL MINIMUM AND UPPER SUPPORT IS WEAK. BUT THEN A MORE VIGOROUS SHORT WAVE WILL APPROACH FROM THE SOUTHWEST ON WEDNESDAY PROVIDING LARGE SCALE LIFT. SO SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BECOME NUMEROUS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE WELL ABOVE NORMAL TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. WEDNESDAY HIGHS WILL BE QUITE DEPENDENT ON EXTENT OF CLOUD COVER AND HOW FAST PRECIPITATION DEVELOPS. SOUTHERN STREAM SHORT WAVE WILL LIFT TOWARDS THE REGION WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND PHASE WITH THE NORTHERN STREAM. THIS WILL DEVELOP A CLOSED LOW THAT WILL THEN SLOWLY LIFT NORTH THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. INITIAL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA LATE THURSDAY. THIS WILL HELP PUSH THE COLD FRONT EAST OF THE AREA. BUT UNTIL THIS OCCURS CONDITIONS WILL BE WET WITH SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS. THERE WILL BE A NARROWED DIURNAL RANGE WITH LOWS NEAR NORMAL AND HIGHS BELOW NORMAL. ADDITIONAL WEAK DISTURBANCES ROTATING AROUND THE UPPER LOW COULD BRING A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS WITH THE SOMEWHAT BETTER CHANCE OF MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION ON FRIDAY. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE ABLE TO BUILD IN OVER THE WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL BE 6 TO 12 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL FOR THE END OF THE WEEK THROUGH THE WEEKEND. && .AVIATION /00Z MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... SCATTERED STORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF THE TAF PERIOD. THESE COULD STILL BRING GUSTY WINDS WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS TEMPORARILY REDUCING VISIBILITY TO IFR. APPEARS THAT CONVECTION SHOULD DIMINISH AFTER 03Z. THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF UNCERTAINTY CONCERNING LATER CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL. BUT THERE ARE SIGNALS THAT THE REMAINS OF A COMPLEX OF STORMS COULD DROP INTO THE REGION AFTER 09Z. SO HAVE INCLUDED VCTS AT ALL TERMINALS FOR SEVERAL HOURS AROUND 12Z. IT IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION THAT SOME VISIBILITY RESTRICTIONS IN MIST COULD DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT... ESPECIALLY IF STORMS DO NOT MATERIALIZE. BUT GIVEN UNCERTAINTIES INVOLVED HAVE NOT INCLUDED IN THE FORECAST EXCEPT AT KLUK. IF A COMPLEX DOES MOVE ACROSS THE AREA IN THE MORNING THEN THE CHANCE OF ADDITIONAL STORMS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE TAF PERIOD WILL BE QUITE LOW. OUTLOOK...THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. MVFR CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. KY...NONE. IN...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...NOVAK NEAR TERM...NOVAK SHORT TERM...NOVAK LONG TERM... AVIATION...
Hazardous weather outlook, May 11, 6:02 PM EDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 602 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2014 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-122215- 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- 602 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2014 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...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE. THE MAIN THREATS WOULD BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. IN ADDITION...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 11, 9:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
926 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0627 PM HAIL ALPINE 39.55N 85.18W
05/11/2014 M1.00 INCH FAYETTE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES ALSO REPORTED DOWN.
&&
ANOVAKSpecial weather statement, May 11, 9:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 930 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2014 OHZ063-064-120200- FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY OH- 930 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2014 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL PICKAWAY AND EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTIES THROUGH 1000 PM EDT... AT 929 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NEW HOLLAND...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... WINDS TO 50 MPH... ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL... SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...CIRCLEVILLE. ALSO...DEER CREEK LAKE...FIVE POINTS...WILLIAMSPORT...FOX AND LOGAN ELM VILLAGE ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT. IF THIS STORM BECOMES STRONGER...THEN A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED. LAT...LON 3973 8289 3951 8288 3952 8330 3965 8334
Local storm report, May 11, 9:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
946 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0942 PM TSTM WND GST NEW HOLLAND 39.55N 83.26W
05/11/2014 M60 MPH FAYETTE OH AMATEUR RADIO
&&Local storm report, May 11, 10:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Butler | 45 min |
| May 11, 8:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Franklin | 29 min |
| May 11, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Pickaway | 41 min |
| May 11, 8:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Warren | 34 min |
| May 11, 9:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Licking | 36 min |
| May 11, 9:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Pickaway | 30 min |
| May 11, 9:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Fayette, Pickaway, Ross | 46 min |
| May 11, 10:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking, Pickaway, Ross | 47 min |
| May 11, 10:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Hocking | 33 min |
| May 11, 11:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway, Ross | 2 hr |
| May 12, 1:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Mercer | 30 min |
| May 12, 1:41 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Miami, Shelby | 3 hr |
| May 12, 1:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer | 31 min |
| May 12, 2:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Auglaize, Miami, Shelby | 31 min |
| May 12, 2:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Miami, Montgomery, Preble | 6 hr |
| May 12, 2:42 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Greene, Hardin, Logan | 5 hr |
| May 12, 2:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Hardin, Logan, Miami, Montgomery | 29 min |
| May 12, 3:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Greene, Madison, Union | 29 min |
| May 12, 3:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Delaware, Greene, Madison, Union | 31 min |
| May 12, 3:55 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Butler, Warren | 4 hr |
| May 12, 4:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Miami, Shelby | 3 hr |
| May 12, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Carroll | 27 min |
| May 12, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Switzerland | 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.