FLASH FLOOD WARNING NORTHERN CAMPBELL AND KENTON COUNTIES UNTIL 5:45 PM
HEAT EMERGENCY CITY OF CINCINNATI WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY
Flash flooding has occurred across parts of Covington and Newport this afternoon. Cars have been submerged, roads closed, and basements flooded.
We remind you: PLEASE DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADWAYS!!! The water may be too deep to cross safely.
Flood problems could continue into the evening...but the good news is the rain has gotten a kick to the east and should end by about 9 PM everywhere.
What Happened
The reason for the flooding this afternoon is that a meso-low pressure system developed just east of downtown.
If you have monitored our Twitter account during severe weather you may sometimes read where I say a "mesocyclone" developed somewhere and you need to be taking cover.
Well, this is similar. However it wasn't a tight enough circulation that severe weather was imminent. It was large enough that the rain could rotate around it, and it did so...with the pivot point just east of Covington and Newport, somewhere in southwest Clermont and/or southeast Hamilton counties.
The result was what we call a "train" of heavy rain that more or less didn't move much until another trough of low pressure could kick the meso-low east - which happened shortly after 4:30 PM, which resulted in the flooding across Covington, Newport and Fort Thomas.
~Jeremy Moses
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