Flash Flood Warning 62, NWS Indianapolis, IN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA
240 PM EST SAT AUG  5 1989

IN INDIANA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 664 IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 9 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA...

SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF TERRE HAUTE TO 10 MILES NORTH
OF PORTLAND IN JAY COUNTY AND EAST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
TERRE HAUTE TO 5 MILES EAST OF EVANSVILLE.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... GREENCASTLE...NOBLESVILLE...INDIANAPOLIS
...RICHMOND...BLOOMINGTON...BEDFORD...GREENSBURG...MADISON AND TELL
CITY.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOU~LD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
STEIGERWALDT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA
330 PM EST SAT AUG 5 1989

THERE IS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
INDIANA UNTIL 9 PM EST.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... GREENCASTLE...NOBLESVILLE...INDIANAPOLIS
...RICHMOND...BLOOMINGTON...BEDFORD...GREENSBURG...MADISON AND TELL
CITY.

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 AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

AT 320 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RINFALL WERE OVER
EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA.

THE STORMS WERE FROM AROUND RICHMOND...WEST TO INDIANAPOLIS AND
SOUTHWEST TO AROUND BLOOMINGTON AND BLOOMFIELD. WINDS OF 35 TO 50
MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO AROUND RUSHVILLE AND
GREENSBURG BETWEEN 315 AND 320 PM.

HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS JUST SOUTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS...AROUND
MOORESVILLE. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN WHEN DRIVING IN HEAVY
RAIN. BE CAREFUL OF HYROPLANING...HAVING WHEELS FLOAT ON FLOODED
ROADS...CAUSING LOSS OF CONTROL.

ALL THE STORMS WILL HAVE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

DS

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA
355 PM EST SAT AUG 5 1989

THERE IS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
INDIANA UNTIL 9 PM EST.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... GREENCASTLE...NOBLESVILLE...INDIANAPOLIS
...RICHMOND...BLOOMINGTON...BEDFORD...GREENSBURG...MADISON AND TELL
CITY.

AT 335 PM EST...STATE POLICE REPORTED SOME SMALL TREE LIMBS HAD BEEN
BROUGHT DOWN BY 35 TO 40 MPH WINDS IN THE GREENSBURG VICINITY. SOME
DAMAGE TO SMALL SIGNPOSTS WAS ALSO REPORTED.

THE THUNDERSTORM RESPONSIBLE WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST INTO SOUTHWEST
FRANKLIN AND NORTHERN RIPLEY COUNTIES...NEAR THE TOWN OF BATESVILLE.

A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR WINCHESTER...15 MILES EAST OF
MUNCIE...TO SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH OF INDIANAPOLIS...IN THE MOORESVILLE
AND GREENWOOD AREAS...TO NEAR BLOOMINGTON WAS PRODUCING SOME VERY
HEAVY DOWNPOURS. RAIN APPEARED HEAVIEST IN THE MOORESVILLE...
GREENWOOD...AND BLOOMINGTON AREAS.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR.

BE AWARE OF THE THREAT OF PONDING OF WATER AS HEAVY DOWNPOURS
CONTINUE. ALSO...MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN WHEN DRIVING IN HEAVY
RAIN. BE CAREFUL OF HYROPLANING...HAVING WHEELS FLOAT ON FLOODED
ROADS...CAUSING LOSS OF CONTROL.

ALL THE STORMS HAVE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

MPD

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
440 PM EST SAT AUG 5 1989

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST.

AT 435 PM EST...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST ACROSS
PART OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEWCASTLE OR 25 MILES
NORTHWEST OF RICHMOND...AND A COUPLE OF OTHERS...ONE 20 MILES EAST
OF BLOOMINGTON AND 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

AT 430 PM EST...GREENSBURG POLICE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL...VERY
HEAVY RAIN AND WINDS GUSTING TO 50 MILES AN HOUR.

AT 436 PM EST...TREE LIMBS AND ONE TREE WERE BLOWN DOWN AT HOPE OR 10
MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS.

PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF LOSANTVILLE...LYNN...COLUMBUS AND BATESVILLE
SHOULD BE ALERT FOR VERY HEAVY RAIN CAUSING FLOODING OF LOW LYING
AREAS AS WELL AS GUST2Y WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE
HAIL BETWEEN 440 PM AND 530 PM EST.
STEIGERWALDT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
510 PM EST SAT AUG 5 1989

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST.

AT 505 PM EST...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST INDIANA
BETWEEN COLUMBUS INDIANA AND CINCINNATI OHIO.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLUMBUS...AND OTHERS
25 MILES EAST AND 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLUMBUS.

THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS THAT COVERED MUCH
OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CITIES OF OSGOOD...MILAN AND
VERSAILLES BEMTWEEN 5 AND 530 PM EST. PEOPLE IN THESE CITIES CAN EXPECT
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING
OF LOW LYING PLACES IN SOME AREAS OF DECATUR AND RIPLEY COUNTIES IS
ALSO LIKELY.
STEIGERWALDT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
550 PM EST SAT AUG 5 1989

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST.

AT 545 PM EST THERE WERE WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM
WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEDFORD. THIS STORM WAS LIKELY PRODUCING
TORRENTIAL RAIN...STRONG GUSwTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE 5 MILES NORTH OF BLOOMINGTON...JUST WEST OF
SPENCER AND NEAR SULLIVAN. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST
INDIANA FROM CROTHERSVILLE TO MADISON.

ALLSOPP