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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 3, 2024Grant County, Owen County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2024, 8:40 PM EDT for Grant County, Owen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 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: Jul 3, 2024, 8:40 PM EDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2024, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Grant County, KY, Owen County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 376 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: 424 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 8:29 PM EDT, 11 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
Jul 4, 12:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Darke, Preble	2 hr
Jul 4, 1:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Scioto	2 hr
Jul 3, 8:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Grant, Owen	3 hr
Jul 4, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	45 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2024 Every flash flood warning in 2024

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.