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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 19, 1989Cass County, White County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1989, 3:30 PM EST for Cass County, White County, Indiana. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 1989, 3:30 PM EST (20:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1989, 5:30 PM EST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cass County, IN, White 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 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 192033
FFWIND
INC017-181-192230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
330 PM EST MON JUN 19 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA
          ...NORTHWEST CASS
IN NORTHWEST INDIANA
          ...NORTHERN WHITE
 
AT 325 PM EST RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS PRODUCING VERY
HEAVY RAIN 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOGANSPORT.
 
THIS STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY WEST AT 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR TOWARD THE
TOWNS OF HEADLEE AND BUFFALO.
 
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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, 1 hour 16 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

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 3:09 PM EST, 21 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA
308 PM EST MON JUN 19 1989

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN AND SMALL HAIL
OVER NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHWEST INDIANA AT 300 PM EST. THE STRONGEST
STORMS WERE 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOGANSPORT...NEAR ROYAL CENTER...
AND AT FOWLER...30 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE.

OTHER STRONG STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE AROUND 40 MILES WEST OF
INDIANAPOLIS FROM CECIL HARDEN LAKE TO RUSSELLVILLE TO LADOGA.
THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO 40 MILES EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS FROM
SHELBYVILLE TO RUSHVILLE TO NEW CASTLE.

A LARGE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM LAFAYETTE TO
MONTICELLO TO ROCHESTER.

THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY NORTHWEST AT ABOUT 10 MPH.

REPORT HAIL PENNEY SIZE OR LARGER...OR FLOODING TO THE NEAREST
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATER SERVICE.
USE CAUTION WHEN DRIVING THROUGH THUNDERSTORMS. DO NOT DRIVE
THRzOUGH HIGH WATER ON ROADS.

ALLSOPP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 2:16 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Miami	119 min
Jun 19, 4:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	38 min
Jun 19, 6:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	24 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.