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Flash Flood Warning 91, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Sep 19, 2026, 11:57 PM EDT for Hocking County, Pickaway County, Ross County, Ohio. It was in force for 9 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
- Sep 19, 2026, 11:57 PM EDT (03:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2026, 8:38 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Hocking County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Ross County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 2396 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 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 Sep 19, 11:05 PM EDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 11:05 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 19, 6:56 PM EDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Sep 19, 10:29 PM EDT | Flood Watch | ILN | Clinton, Fairfield, Fayette, Highland, Hocking, Pickaway and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 19, 11:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway, Ross | 3 hr |
| Sep 20, 12:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Warren | 33 min |
| Sep 20, 12:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clinton, Warren | 31 min |
| Sep 20, 1:05 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Brown, Butler, Clinton, Highland, Warren | 3 hr |
| Sep 20, 1:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Highland | 32 min |
| Sep 20, 1:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Highland, Pike, Scioto | 40 min |
| Sep 20, 1:54 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clinton, Warren | 3 hr |
| Sep 20, 2:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Ross, Scioto | 37 min |
| Sep 20, 2:36 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Pike, Ross | 7 hr |
| Sep 20, 2:54 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | ILN | Hocking | 7 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:06 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 6 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:12 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Pickaway, Ross | 9 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont | 3 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:59 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Highland | 5 hr |
| Sep 20, 4:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Warren | 4 hr |
| Sep 20, 6:20 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Sep 20, 7:52 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Sep 20, 8:38 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway, Ross | 5 hr |
| Sep 20, 1:07 PM EDT | Flood Watch | ILN | Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more | 23 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Adams | 47 min |
| Sep 20, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Scioto | 23 min |
| Sep 20, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Scioto | 44 min |
| Sep 20, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Scioto | 26 min |
| Sep 20, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Adams | 45 min |
| Sep 20, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Darke | 37 min |
| Sep 20, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Miami | 45 min |
| Sep 20, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Preble | 41 min |
| Sep 20, 7:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Preble | 2 hr |
| Sep 20, 7:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Montgomery, Preble | 31 min |
| Sep 20, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Butler | 45 min |
| Sep 20, 7:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Butler, Darke, Miami, Montgomery, Preble | 2 hr |
| Sep 20, 7:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Butler, Montgomery, Warren | 21 min |
| Sep 20, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Wayne | 46 min |
| Sep 20, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Wayne | 34 min |
| Sep 20, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Union, Wayne | 49 min |
| Sep 20, 6:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Fayette, Wayne | 3 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.