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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 7, 20199 counties in Kentucky; Switzerland County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood watch at Jun 7, 2019, 1:34 PM EDT for 9 counties in Kentucky; Switzerland County, Indiana. It took effect at Jun 7, 2019, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 2019, 1:34 PM EDT (17:34 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 7, 2019, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired
Jun 8, 2019, 12:09 AM EDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Flood severity
None

Counties Switzerland County, IN, Bracken County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 340 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2019-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 51 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2019-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-348 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 11:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNGallatin45 min
Jun 7, 12:40 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNRipley62 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2019Flash Flood Watches in Indiana, 2019Every flash flood watch in 2019

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.