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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 19, 1989Miami County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1989, 2:16 PM EST for Miami County, Indiana. It was in force for 119 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 1989, 2:16 PM EST (19:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1989, 4:15 PM EST
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Miami 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 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1989-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 86 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1989-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 191919
FFWIND
INC103-192115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
216 PM EST MON JUN 19 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA
          ...NORTHERN MIAMI
 
AT 210 PM EST THE INDIANA STATE POLICE REPORTED ROADS IMPASSABLE BY
WATER NORTH OF THE DENVER AREA...25 MILES NORTH OF KOKOMO.
 
AT 200 PM EST RADAR SHOWED A VERY SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS
PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN NEAR THE TOWNS OF DENVER...DEEDSVILLE AND
BIRMINGHAM.
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
OIMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.
BG

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 19, 2:14 PM EST, 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA
205 PM EST MON JUN 19 1989

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN AND SMALL HAIL
OVER NORTHCENTRAL INDIANA AT 200 PM EST. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE
FROM LOGANSPORT TO DENVER TO NORTH MANCHESTER...OR 20 MILES
NORTHWEST TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF KOKOMO.

THE MIAMI COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED VERY SMALL HAIL 6 MILES
NORTH OF DENVER. LOW LAND FLOODING AND WATER ON ROADS WAS ALSO
ALSO OBSERVED BY STATE POLICE AND THE COUNTY SHERIFF IN NORTHERN
MIAMI COUNTY.

DRIVE WITH CAUTION IN THUNDERSTORMS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH
HIGH WATER. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO REDUCE VISIBILITY.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT INDIANA.
STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE...AND
NEAR GUION...JUST SOUTH OF SHADES AND TURKEY RUN STATE PARKS IN
WEST CENTRAL INDIANA.

THE PRECIPITAION WAS MOVING KVERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST
AT AROUND 10 TO 15 MPH.

REPORT HAIL PENNEY SIZE OR LARGER AND FLOODING TO THE NEAREST
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATER SERVICE.

ALLSOPP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 3:30 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDCass, White2 hr
Jun 19, 4:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDTippecanoe38 min
Jun 19, 6:31 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMarion24 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989

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.