Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987

Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 2, 1987Delaware County, Randolph County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1987, 8:50 PM EST for Delaware County, Randolph County, Indiana. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1987, 8:50 PM EST (01:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1987, 1:00 AM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Delaware County, IN, Randolph County, IN

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 2296 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 9.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KIND 030157 COR
FFWIND
INC035-135-030600-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION AND IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
850 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM EST WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF

EAST CENTRAL INDIANA... RANDOLPH ...SOUTHERN DELAWARE

AS OF 850 PM EST RAINFALL REPORTS OF AS MUCH AS 7 INCHES HAS FALLEN
WITH MOST OF THIS AMOUNT OCCURRING SINCE LATE AFTERNOON.

FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ALONG THE WHITE RIVER IN WINCHESTER. TWO
FEET OF WATER WAS REPORTED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF WINCHESTER AT 650
PM EST ON ROAD SURFACES.

A FLASH FLODD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  TAKE NECESSARY
PRECAUTION AGAINST FLOODING IMMEDIATELY.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS
SAFELY.  IF CAUGHT IN RISING WATER...ABANDONE YOUR VEHICLEL QUICKLY
AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

PRICE

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:32 PM EST, 4 hours 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
430 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT OVER THE NORTH HALF
OF INDIANA UNTIL 800 PM EST...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA AT 420 PM
EST.

OVER WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...STORMS WERE ALONG INTERSTATE 74 FROM
WEST OF THE STATE LINE TO 10 MILES EAST OF VEEDERSBURG. THE STORMS
WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST AND WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS IS LIKELY. HEAVY RAINFALL
WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES FOR MOTORISTS.

PERSONS IN NORTHERN VERMILLION AND SOUTHERN FOUNTAIN COUNTIES IN
WEST CENTRAL INDIANWA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN
430PM AND 515 PM EST.
EDWARDS

Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:40 PM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
440 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

350 PM EST CLINTON COUNTY...2 NORTH MULBERRY...GUST-NADO INDICATED
           IN WHEAT CROP...REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.
^
DS

Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:49 PM EST, 4 hours 1 minute before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
450 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

445 PM EST TIPPECANOE COUNTY...ODELL...SMALL TREES DOWN...REPORTED
           BY STATE POLICE AND RELAYED BY STATE POLICE.e

DS

Local storm report, Jun 2, 5:04 PM EST, 3 hours 46 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
502 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

455 PM EST NUMEROUS TREES SOUTHERN FOUNTAIN COUNTY. NEAR KINGMAN
           BY FOUNTAIN COUNTY SHERIFF

GERY

Local storm report, Jun 2, 5:25 PM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
526 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

522 PM EST AMATEUR RADIO REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT COLFAX
           IN SOUTHEAST TIPPECANOE COUNTY.

DS

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:45 PM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
545 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL
800 PM EST...

...A TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH INDIANA UNTIL 1000 PM EST...

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST INDIANA...

AT 545PM EST THERE WERE NO WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR INDIANA.

RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM
WEST CENTRAL INDIANA EAST TO NEAR RICHMOND IN EASTERN INDIANA.

EP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Randolph	19 min
Jun 2, 9:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Monroe	38 min
Jun 2, 10:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew	33 min
Jun 2, 10:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur	26 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 1987 Every flash flood warning in 1987

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.