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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 17, 2015Wayne County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2015, 4:41 PM EDT for Wayne 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 2015, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2015, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Wayne County, IN

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 113 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1042 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

932 
WGUS51 KILN 172041
FFWILN
INC177-172345-
/O.NEW.KILN.FF.W.0021.150717T2041Z-150717T2345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
441 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT.

* AT 441 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS HAD PRODUCED
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS 
  ALREADY FALLEN. HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL WITH ANOTHER ONE TO 
  THREE INCHES POSSIBLE. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL 
  CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  RICHMOND...CENTERVILLE...GREENS FORK...SPRING GROVE...
  JACKSONBURG...INTERSTATE 70 AT EXIT 145 AND MIDDLEBORO.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. 

TO REPORT FLASH FLOODING...GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/ILN AND
SUBMIT YOUR REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3993 8513 3992 8481 3991 8481 3980 8482
      3984 8514

$$

BINAU

2 follow-up statements

182 
WGUS71 KILN 172116
FFSILN

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
516 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 2015

INC177-172345-
/O.CON.KILN.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-150717T2345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
WAYNE IN-
516 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 745 PM EDT...

AT 514 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS HAD PRODUCED 
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. TWO TO AS MUCH AS THREE INCHES OF 
RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL WITH ANOTHER 
INCH POSSIBLE. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH 
FLOODING TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY IN THE URBAN AREAS OF RICHMOND AS 
STORM SEWERS WILL LIKELY FAIL TO KEEP UP WITH THIS AMOUNT OF RAIN.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
RICHMOND...CENTERVILLE...GREENS FORK...SPRING GROVE...JACKSONBURG...
INTERSTATE 70 AT EXIT 145 AND MIDDLEBORO.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. 

TO REPORT FLASH FLOODING...GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/ILN AND
SUBMIT YOUR REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3993 8513 3992 8481 3991 8481 3980 8482
      3984 8514

$$

BINAU

708 
WGUS71 KILN 172259
FFSILN

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
659 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 2015

INC177-172309-
/O.CAN.KILN.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-150717T2345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
WAYNE IN-
659 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED AND FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A
THREAT.

PLEASE REPORT PREVIOUS FLASH FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
BY GOING TO OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/ILN AND SUBMITTING YOUR REPORT
VIA SOCIAL MEDIA.

LAT...LON 3993 8513 3992 8481 3991 8481 3980 8482
      3984 8514

$$

BINAU

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	36 min
Jul 17, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Wayne	45 min
Jul 17, 3:53 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	ILN	Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more	36 hr
Jul 17, 4:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Wayne	4 hr
Jul 17, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	25 min
Jul 17, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Wayne	47 min
Jul 17, 4:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Wayne	4 hr
Jul 17, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Wayne	30 min
Jul 17, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Decatur	25 min
Jul 17, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin, Ripley	45 min
Jul 17, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland	35 min
Jul 17, 6:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Ripley	3 hr
Jul 17, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ohio, Switzerland	25 min
Jul 17, 7:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Ripley	119 min
Jul 17, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ohio, Switzerland	33 min
Jul 17, 7:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio	3 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.