Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Watches in 2020
Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood watch at Mar 12, 2020, 10:41 AM EDT for 5 counties in Ohio; 9 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Mar 12, 2020, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2020, 10:41 AM EDT (14:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 12, 2020, 6:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2020, 1:46 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Flood severity
- None
Counties 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, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:41 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, 2.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.