Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN
600 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM EST...
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM EST (830 PM EDT) FOR
ELKHART AND ST. JOSEPH COUNTIES IN INDIANA AND SOUTHERN BERRIEN AND
SOUTHERN CASS COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...

RAINFALL OF TWO TO THREE INCHES OVER THE REGION HAS CAUSED FLOODING
OF STREETS AND INTERSECTIONS THROUGHOUT MICHIANA.

AT 545 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS NEAR
JOLIET ILLINOIS...25 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF CHICAGO.

A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER MOST OF
NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER M$ICHIGAN AS WELL AS SOUTHERN
LAKE MICHIGAN.

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN
HOUR.

MW

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
625 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST
INDIANA UNTIL 9 PM EST...

AT 620 PM EST A LARGE AREA OF RAIN COVERED MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA...
NORTHWEST OHIO AND SOUTHERN MICHIGAN. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY
RAIN WERE EMBEDDED IN THE RAIN AREA...ESPECIALLY IN LAGRANGE AND
STEUBEN COUNTIES OF EXTREME NORTHEAST INDIANA. SOME STREET FLOODING
IS POSSIBLE IN THE AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN. THE RAIN AREA WAS MOVING EAST
AT 35 MPH.

BY 730PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL BE IN WILLIAMS COUNTY
OF NORTHWEST OHIO. SOME STREET FLOODING WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE FROM THESE
STORMS.

HAYES4

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
735 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST
INDIANA UNTIL 9 PM EST...

AT 730 PM EST A LARGE AREA OF RAIN COVERED MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA...
NORTHWEST OHIO AND SOUTHERN MICHIGAN. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE EMBEDDED
IN THE LARGER AREA AND THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN
AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN NORTHEAST INDIANA THIS EVENING.
HAYES

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
810 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST
INDIANA UNTIL 9 PM EST...

AT 805 PM EST A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH OCCASIONAL EMBEDDED
THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO. THE
RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

MUCH OF NORTHEAST INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE FROM WABASH TO HUNTINGTON TO
DECATUR IN ADAMS COUNTY WILL RECEIVE HEAVY RAIN UNTIL 930 PM THIS
EVENING. LAGRANGE AND STEUBEN COUNTIES HAVE RECEIVED AROUND 3 INCHES OF
RAIN SO FAR TODAY AND WITH MORE HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED SMALL STREAM AND
STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED THIS EVENING. THE REMAINDER OF
NORTHEAST INDIANA CAN ALSO EXPECT STREET FLOODING THROUGH 930 PM.
UNDERPASSES SHOULD BE WATCHED CAREFULLY.
HAYES

STORM REPORT...PRELIMINARY REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN
953 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988

TIME      EVENT
1528EST   60 MPH WIND AND 1/2 IN DIAMETER HAIL AND SEVERAL LARGE TREES
          DOWN AT NEW BUFFALO MICHIGAN.

1540EST   WINDS ESTIMATED GREATER THAN 70 MPH UPROOTED TREES AT
          THREE OAKS MICHIGAN.

1605EST   SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN ALONG THE LAPORTE AND
          ST. JOSEPH COUNTY LINE NEAR NEW CARLISLE INDIANA.

1625EST   40 TO 50 MPH WINDS REPORTED BY SPOTTER AT WARSAW INDIANA.

1640EST   8 TO 10 INCHES OF WATER ON STREET AT LASALLE AND MAIN STREETS
          IN SOUTH BEND.

1645EST   LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN ON MCKINLEY AVENUE ON EAST SIDE OF
          SOUTH BEND.

1730EST   MANY STREETS IN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND FLOODED.  WATER
          UP TO HOUSES ALONG ANGELA BLVD.

1900EST-  NUMEROUS REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING IN LAPORTE...ST. JOSEPH
2100EST   ...ELKHART COUNTIES IN INDIANA AND IN BER'RIEN...CASS...AND
          ST. JOSEPH COUNTIES IN MICHIGAN.
          MOWERY