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Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1989, 7:50 PM EST for Randolph County, Indiana. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1989, 7:50 PM EST (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1989, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 75 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 649 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KIND 200051
FFWIND
INC135-200300-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
750 PM EST WED JUL 19 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
...RANDOLPH
THE STATE POLICE AT 740 PM EST HAVE REPORTED NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS IN
RANDOLPH COUNTY HAVE BEEN CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. THE AREA WHERE
MOST OF THE FLOODING HAS OCCURRED IS ABOUT 20 TO 30 MILES EAST OF
MUNCIE INDIANA.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING ISR
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
HENDRICKSONWhat 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, Jul 19, 2:47 PM EST, 5 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND PRECIPITATION SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 246 PM EST WED JUL 19 1989 AT 240 PM EST...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER WESTERN AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE IN A BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE...TO TERRE HAUTE... TO SULLIVAN. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE OCCURRING FROM PLAINVILLE...SOUTH TO JUST WEST OF JASPER...AND FROM BROWNSTOWN...TO NEAR PAOLI. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA...WEST AND NORTHWEST OF KOKOMO...AND NORTHWEST OF ANDERSON. ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE BRIEF PERIODS OF GUSTY WIND...BLINDING RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. WATER WILL POND ON ROADS AND INTERSECTIONS. AN AUTOMATED RAIN GAGE AT OOLITIC INDIANA...JUST NORTHWEST OF BEDFORD...MEASURED ONE INCH OF RAIN IN JUST ONE HOUR. ALSO...THE WEATHER OBSERVER AT SHERIDAN...IN CENTRAL INDIANA... REPORTED 1.35 INCHES OF RAIN IN JUST 30 MINUTES. REPORT DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...OR SERIOUS FLOODING TO THE NEAREST ]POLICE AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. GRAY/SHIPE
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 3:34 PM EST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND PRECIPITATION SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 333 PM EST WED JUL 19 1989 AT 325 PM EST...SHOWERS...AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURRING OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE IN A BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF TERRE HAUTE...TO WEST OF GREENCASTLE...TO SHERIDAN AND MUNCIE. THE ENTIRE BAND OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AS EACH INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORM TRAVELED NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE BRIEF PERIODS OF BLINDING RAIN...GUSTY WIND...AND MAYBE SMALL HAIL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER SOUTHERN INDIANA... BETWEEN SEYMOUR AND CORYDON...AND BETWEEN SHOALS AND BOONVILLE. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA...BETWEEN FRANKFORT AND WABASH. ANOTHER SMALL BAND OF STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER WILL MOVE OUT OF EASTERN ILLINOIS INTO WESTERN INDIANA...FROM NEWPORT TO TERRE HAUTE AFTER 4 PM EST. SOME OF THE STORMS OVER INDIANA WILL CAUSE LOCAL STREET FLOODING AND CAUSE WATER TO POND OF HIGHWAYS. REPORT DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...OR SERIOUS FLOODING TO THE NEAREST POLICE AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. GRAY
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:40 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 538 PM EST WED JUL 19 1989 AT 526 PM EST...THE RANDOLPH COUNTY SHERRIFF SPOTTED A FUNNEL CLOUD ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF MUNCIE NEAR THE TOWN OF FARM LAND IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA. THEY ALSO SAID THERE WAS 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS IN THIS THUNDERSTORM. EVEN THROUGH THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTS THIS AFTERNOON. IT IS UNLIKELY THAT THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS WILL TOU CH THE GROUND. PERSONS TO THE EAST OF MUNCIE WILL LIKELY SEE VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS AS THIS THUNDERSTORM MOVES THROUGH. SOME SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. HENDRICKSON
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.