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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood watch at Jun 22, 2018, 11:02 AM EDT for 17 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Jun 22, 2018, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2018, 11:02 AM EDT (15:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 22, 2018, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2018, 10:52 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 649 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 Jun 22, 10:55 AM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 10:55 AM EDT, 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 8:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Hocking | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Fairfield, Licking | 88 min |
| Jun 21, 10:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ILN | Hocking | 35 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:36 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Madison, Union | 8 hr |
| Jun 22, 1:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Delaware | 4 hr |
| Jun 22, 1:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Fairfield, Licking | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Delaware | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 3:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Hardin | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Hardin | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 6:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Hardin | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 7:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Delaware, Licking | 3 hr |
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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.