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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 2, 2016Dearborn County, Ripley County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this areal flood warning at Jun 2, 2016, 5:44 PM EDT for Dearborn County, Ripley County, Indiana. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2016, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2016, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Dearborn County, IN, Ripley County, IN

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 48 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 2, 4:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 4:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 3:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:47 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:35 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 5:36 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 8:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton	23 min
Jun 1, 9:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton	35 min
Jun 1, 9:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams	31 min
Jun 2, 2:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Butler	2 hr
Jun 2, 2:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Scioto	116 min
Jun 2, 2:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Butler	116 min
Jun 2, 3:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	ILN	Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton and 5 more	5 hr
Jun 2, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clermont	25 min
Jun 2, 7:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Brown	2 hr
Jun 2, 7:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Adams, Brown	116 min
Jun 1, 9:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Mason, Robertson	37 min
Jun 1, 9:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mason, Robertson	27 min
Jun 2, 12:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Lewis	3 hr
Jun 2, 1:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Lewis, Mason	95 min
Jun 2, 6:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Bracken	2 hr
Jun 2, 6:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Bracken	113 min
Jun 2, 2:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Dearborn, Ripley	2 hr
Jun 2, 2:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ripley	2 hr
Jun 2, 3:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland	2 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2016 Every areal flood warning in 2016

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.