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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 25, 1989Montgomery County, Parke County, Putnam County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1989, 6:18 AM EST for Montgomery County, Parke County, Putnam County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 1989, 6:18 AM EST (11:18 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 1989, 9:15 AM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Montgomery County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, May 25, 4:04 AM EST, 2 hours 14 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA
400 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989

IN INDIANA THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTROM  WATCH IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 800 AM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA...
NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF BLUFFTON TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST
OF LAFAYETTE AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FOR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF
LAFAYETTE TO ANGOLA.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... FORT WAYNE...HUNTINGTON...ANGOLA...
BLUFFTON AND NORTH MANCHESTER.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AN?D POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

WJG

Special weather statement, May 25, 4:43 AM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA
440 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA
EARLY THIS MORNING. AT 435 AM EST THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
REACHED FROM 45 MILES NORTH OF INDIANAPOLIS TO THE WEST SIDE
OF INDIANAPOLIS TO 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TERRE HAUTE.

THE STRONGEST  STORMS HAVE PRODUCED HAIL UP TO ABOUT A HALF
INCH IN THE AREA OF PERU AND KOKOMO IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL RACE ACROSS THE INDIANAPOLIS METRO AREA
BETWEEN 445 AM AND 530 AM EST.

BY 530 AM EST THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD EXTEND FROM MUNCIE
TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF INDIANAPOLIS.

GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTuED WITH THE STRONGER
STORMS.
EDWARDS

Special weather statement, May 25, 4:51 AM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
450 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY IN INDIANA.

PRICE

Special weather statement, May 25, 5:13 AM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
512 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RACING THROUGH CENTRAL INDIANA.
AT 510 AM EST THE LEADING EDGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM
NEAR MUNCIE TO 20 MILES EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS TO 5 MILES NORTH
OF COLUMBUS.

WINDS GUSTED TO ABOUT 38 MILES AN HOUR AT THE INDIANAPOLIS
AIRPORT AS THE THUNDERSTORMS BLEW THROUGH.

GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STORMS
AS THEY MOVE ACROSS MUNCIE...NEW CASTLE AND RUSHVILLE BETWEEN
515 AM EST AND 540 AM EST.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL END FROM THE WEST ACROSS THE INDIANAPOLIS
METRO AREA BY 545 AM EST.
EDWARDS

Special weather statement, May 25, 5:42 AM EST, 36 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
545 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...NUMBER 326...IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT
FOR ANY PORTION OF INDIANA.

PRICE

Special weather statement, May 25, 5:44 AM EST, 34 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
543 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE HEADED TOWARDS EASTERN BORDER OF INDIANA.
AT 538 AM EST THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE APPROACHING WINCHESTER AND
RICHMOND IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA.

PERSONS IN THE COUNTIES OF RANDOLPH AND WAYNE SHOULD BE PREPARED
FOR GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN AS THE STORMS
MOVE THROUGH BETWEEN 543 AM AND 610 AM EST.
EDWARDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 2:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	LaPorte, Saint Joseph	47 min
May 25, 2:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jasper	31 min
May 25, 3:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Elkhart, Marshall	44 min
May 25, 4:17 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fulton, Kosciusko	43 min
May 25, 3:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Sullivan	35 min
May 25, 4:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox	41 min
May 25, 4:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene	26 min
May 25, 5:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	41 min
May 25, 6:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Parke, Putnam	45 min
May 25, 6:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks	50 min
May 25, 6:57 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Hendricks, Marion	33 min

Nearby

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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.