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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Mar 4, 2026, 8:26 PM EST for Dearborn County, Franklin County, Ripley County, Indiana. It was in force for 5 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
- Mar 4, 2026, 8:26 PM EST (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2026, 1:30 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Dearborn County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Ripley County, IN
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 4, 6:41 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 6:41 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 8:09 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Butler, Greene, Hamilton, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and 1 more | 22 hr |
| Mar 4, 9:34 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Clark, Clinton, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin and 4 more | 21 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clinton | 26 min |
| Mar 4, 11:07 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | ILN | Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Delaware, Franklin and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 11:58 PM EST | River Flood Warning | ILN | Greene, Warren | 50 hr |
| Mar 5, 12:01 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler, Montgomery, Preble, Warren | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 12:53 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 25 hr |
| Mar 5, 12:57 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILN | Warren | 15 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:09 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | ILN | Hamilton | 25 hr |
| Mar 5, 2:44 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | ILN | Butler, Montgomery, Preble, Warren | 11 hr |
| Mar 5, 5:46 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Clinton, Fairfield, Fayette, Highland, Hocking, Pickaway and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Mar 5, 10:56 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILN | Hocking | 18 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:30 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Butler, Montgomery, Preble, Warren | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 2:38 PM EST | River Flood Warning | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 39 hr |
| Mar 4, 7:31 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley, Union | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 11:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Union | 2 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:30 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley | 12 hr |
| Mar 5, 2:18 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Union | 11 hr |
| Mar 5, 10:00 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Dearborn, Ripley | 9 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:25 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:31 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Union | 5 hr |
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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.