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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 20, 2026Bracken County, Pendleton County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 20, 2026, 6:42 PM EDT for Bracken County, Pendleton County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 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: May 20, 2026, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2026, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Bracken County, KY, Pendleton County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 744 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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.

NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 20, 1:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 20, 1:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 17 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
May 19, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Madison	49 min
May 19, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware, Franklin, Licking, Madison, Union	65 min
May 19, 8:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway	51 min
May 19, 8:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hamilton, Warren	27 min
May 19, 9:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Delaware, Franklin, Greene, Licking and 3 more	3 hr
May 19, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Pickaway	50 min
May 19, 9:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton	29 min
May 19, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	32 min
May 19, 9:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield	27 min
May 19, 10:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking	35 min
May 20, 4:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Butler, Hamilton	3 hr
May 20, 7:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin, Licking	30 min
May 20, 7:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	25 min
May 20, 7:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	34 min
May 20, 5:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Scioto	3 hr
May 20, 7:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Adams, Brown	3 hr
May 19, 8:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Owen	9 min
May 20, 3:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Lewis, Mason	2 hr
May 20, 5:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Pendleton	65 min
May 20, 4:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley	4 hr

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.