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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 27, 2016Scioto County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 2016, 6:52 PM EDT for Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 113 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 27, 2016, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 2016, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 113 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Scioto County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 1019 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1068 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted.

023 
WGUS51 KILN 272252
FFWILN
OHC145-280045-
/O.NEW.KILN.FF.W.0039.160827T2252Z-160828T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
652 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL SCIOTO COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO...

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT.

* AT 651 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS HAD PRODUCED
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
  ALREADY FALLEN. HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL WITH ANOTHER 1 TO 2
  INCHES POSSIBLE. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE
  FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  LUCASVILLE...CLARKTOWN AND MCDERMOTT. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

DO NOT ENTER OR CROSS FLOWING WATER OR WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.

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 3894 8291 3884 8289 3881 8309 3890 8307

$$

JDR

1 follow-up statement

629 
WGUS71 KILN 280000
FFSILN

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
800 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 2016

OHC145-280010-
/O.CAN.KILN.FF.W.0039.000000T0000Z-160828T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
SCIOTO OH-
800 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL SCIOTO 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 3894 8291 3884 8289 3881 8309 3890 8307

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 8:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Butler, Montgomery, Warren	116 min
Aug 26, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Montgomery, Warren	32 min
Aug 26, 8:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Butler, Montgomery, Warren	3 hr
Aug 26, 9:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery	30 min
Aug 26, 9:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Preble	25 min
Aug 26, 9:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Miami	29 min
Aug 27, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Hamilton	35 min
Aug 27, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Montgomery, Preble	30 min
Aug 27, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Darke	36 min
Aug 27, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Montgomery, Preble, Warren	45 min
Aug 27, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery, Preble	47 min
Aug 27, 2:36 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	ILN	Adams, Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Highland, Pike and 2 more	3 hr
Aug 27, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Darke	34 min
Aug 27, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Clinton, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery and 2 more	30 min
Aug 27, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clermont	37 min
Aug 27, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Greene, Miami, Montgomery	47 min
Aug 27, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton, Fayette, Greene	24 min
Aug 27, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign, Logan	26 min
Aug 27, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Franklin, Logan, Madison, Union	39 min
Aug 27, 4:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Champaign, Clark	3 hr
Aug 27, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware, Union	31 min
Aug 27, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	32 min
Aug 27, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	17 min
Aug 27, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	19 min
Aug 27, 6:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Scioto	112 min

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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.