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Areal Flood Warning 14, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 19, 2021Boone County, Gallatin County, Kentucky; Ohio County, Switzerland County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this areal flood warning at Jun 19, 2021, 10:02 AM EDT for Boone County, Gallatin County, Kentucky; Ohio County, Switzerland County, Indiana. It was in force for 6 hr. 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 19, 2021, 10:02 AM EDT (14:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2021, 3:48 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Ohio County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Boone County, KY, Gallatin County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 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-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: 50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -239 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1041 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -33 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 19, 6:44 AM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 6:44 AM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 4:58 AM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 8:11 AM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:42 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 8:46 AM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:52 AM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 9:28 AM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 10:00 AM EDT, 2 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 18, 8:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Hamilton	50 min
Jun 18, 8:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Greene, Montgomery	3 hr
Jun 18, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene, Montgomery	34 min
Jun 18, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery, Preble	31 min
Jun 18, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Greene, Warren	42 min
Jun 18, 8:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Greene, Montgomery, Warren	27 min
Jun 18, 8:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Hamilton, Montgomery, Preble, Warren	36 min
Jun 18, 8:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ILN	Butler, Montgomery, Warren	29 min
Jun 18, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Fayette, Highland	39 min
Jun 18, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Brown, Clinton, Highland	51 min
Jun 18, 9:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Hamilton	34 min
Jun 18, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Warren	45 min
Jun 18, 9:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Clinton, Greene, Warren	3 hr
Jun 18, 9:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Butler, Montgomery, Warren	3 hr
Jun 18, 9:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Clinton, Highland, Pike	3 hr
Jun 18, 9:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Hamilton	3 hr
Jun 18, 9:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Brown, Clermont, Pike, Scioto	56 min
Jun 18, 10:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Scioto	41 min
Jun 18, 10:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Butler, Warren	32 min
Jun 18, 11:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, Warren	42 min
Jun 18, 11:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILN	Greene, Montgomery	6 hr
Jun 18, 11:21 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ILN	Greene, Warren	20 hr
Jun 18, 11:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Highland, Warren	19 min
Jun 19, 12:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke	27 min
Jun 19, 12:12 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Warren	3 hr
Jun 19, 12:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Miami	26 min
Jun 19, 12:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Preble	37 min
Jun 19, 12:33 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILN	Clinton, Greene, Warren	6 hr
Jun 19, 1:12 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Darke, Preble	2 hr
Jun 19, 1:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery	35 min
Jun 19, 2:33 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Butler, Clinton, Darke, Greene, Montgomery, Preble and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 19, 3:04 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Clinton, Warren	2 hr
Jun 19, 3:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Brown, Clinton, Highland	3 hr
Jun 19, 6:39 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Hamilton	19 min
Jun 19, 6:54 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Hamilton	13 hr
Jun 19, 8:12 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ILN	Hamilton	4 hr
Jun 19, 8:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Butler, Hamilton	5 hr
Jun 19, 8:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clermont	44 min
Jun 19, 9:08 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Brown, Clermont, Highland	3 hr
Jun 19, 9:28 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ILN	Warren	10 hr
Jun 19, 9:29 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ILN	Clermont, Hamilton	24 hr
Jun 19, 1:18 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	ILN	Hamilton	9 hr
Jun 18, 8:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone, Gallatin	34 min
Jun 18, 9:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Owen, Pendleton	52 min
Jun 18, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone, Gallatin	15 min
Jun 18, 11:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Carroll	36 min
Jun 18, 11:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Carroll, Owen	3 hr
Jun 19, 12:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Carroll, Owen	40 min
Jun 19, 12:23 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Carroll, Owen	4 hr
Jun 19, 12:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Owen	28 min
Jun 19, 1:28 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen	4 hr
Jun 19, 4:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Boone, Gallatin	5 hr
Jun 19, 4:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILN	Carroll, Owen	6 hr
Jun 19, 8:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin	34 min
Jun 18, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley	46 min
Jun 18, 9:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley	3 hr
Jun 18, 9:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley	28 min
Jun 19, 3:44 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley, Switzerland	3 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2021 Areal Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2021 Every areal flood warning in 2021

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.