Slow moving thunderstorms with heavy rain developed ahead of a low pressure system.
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Slow moving thunderstorms with heavy rain developed ahead of a low pressure system.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 2, 12:50 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Wilmington OH 150 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2016 .SYNOPSIS... A cold front will move across the area today. Unsettled weather will be present for several days as upper level disturbances move through. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/... Upper low to pass thru the Great Lakes and open up in the westerly flow. This will allow a weak surface cold front over to push southeast across ILN/s fa this afternoon. Fog has improved and expect marginal instability to develop with blyr cape values around 1000 j/kg. Expect scattered convection to develop in this unstbl airmass ahead of the front, with the best coverage across our se counties. Little change from previous fcst. Have dropped fog mention and tried to time convection this afternoon. Temperatures look good with highs in the lower and middle 80s. Previous discussion... Visibilities have been reduced generally across locations that received previous rainfall. Have patchy dense fog mention for portions of eastern Indiana and western Ohio. Also went ahead and issued a special weather statement for fog as well. Frontal boundary will be the focus for shower and thunderstorm activity today. A few storms maybe strong to severe across eastern portions of the region. Damaging winds would be the primarily threat. Temperatures are expected to be cooler today than the past few days with additional cloud cover in place. Went with high temperatures in the low to middle 80s. && .SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT/... Several disturbances move through during the short term keeping precipitation chances in the forecast. Precipitation and cloud cover will keep temperatures cooler across the area on Friday and Saturday. Went with a model blend for precipitation chances over the next couple of days. && .LONG TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... Sunday the upper level trough axis will still be just west of the area allowing for the chance of rain to continue. PWATS are also forecasted to be above 1.00" during the day. A weak front will also push through the area Sunday as the upper level cyclone begins to mature. Finally on Monday the trough axis will swing by with PWATS slowly starting to fall. Timing of how the upper level low will evolve is still in question, but both the GFS and ECMWF show the low remaining in close enough proximity to the area for some possible wrap around precipitation. Tuesday into Wednesday confidence is below normal as both the Euro and GFS try to break down the ridging across the Mountain West. The GFS tries to push the ridge further south than the Euro. This then influences how quickly surface high pressure moves into the area on the back side of the upper level low from Sunday. For now have trended the grids slower in breaking down the upper level ridge. && .AVIATION /18Z THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... Slow moving front to push south into southern Ohio this afternoon and wash out to our south overnight. This front interacting with low end moderate instby has led to scattered thunderstorm development. Have mention of thunderstorms for several hours this aftn and linger a VCSH into the early evening across the srn TAF sites. Due to high low level moisture and light winds expect mist/fog to develop overnight. Fog should improve early Friday giving way to VFR conditions. VFR conditions will prevail through the day on Friday. OUTLOOK...MVFR ceilings and visibilities are possible Saturday into Sunday. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...None. KY...None. IN...None. && SYNOPSIS...Novak NEAR TERM...Novak SHORT TERM...Novak LONG TERM...Haines AVIATION...AR
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 337 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2016 INZ050-058-059-066-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-074-031945- WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE- SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON- FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY- FAIRFIELD-HOCKING- 337 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...CENTRAL OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. INZ073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ070>073-077>082-088-031945- RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON- CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-BUTLER- WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE- SCIOTO- 337 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2016 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING WITH DAMAGING WINDS AS THE PRIMARY THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ARE ASKED TO REPORT ANY FLOODING OR STORM DAMAGE.
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:01 UTC.
4 flood, 2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Water was reported over the road on State Route 129.
Water was reported on the road at the intersection of State Route 129 and County Road 8005.
Water was reported on the road at the intersection of County Road 800 S and South Benham Road.
High water was reported on the road by the fire department.
The fire department reported roadways with 1.5 feet of water over them. Some low lying roadways had up to six feet of water covering them.
Elder Lane was impassable due to high water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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