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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Northern Indiana

June 3, 1989Adams County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1989, 5:13 PM EST for Adams County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1989, 5:13 PM EST (22:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1989, 8:00 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Adams 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 1989-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 370 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 1989-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
370 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
860 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 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, Jun 3, 11:46 AM EST, 5 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN
1145 AM EST SAT JUN 3 1989

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST FOR ALL OF MICHIANA...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND
SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 400 PM EST.

AT 1140 AM EST...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ETNA GREEN
INDIANA...30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND. IT WILL MOVE EAST THRU
KOSCIUSKO COUNTY BY 1215 PM EST...BRINGING hHEAVY RAINS AND STRONG WINDS
TO THE TOWNS OF WARSAW...OSWEGO AND PIERCETON INDIANA.

AT 1140 AM EST...NO OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED ON RADAR BUT
OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE EARLY
AFTERNOON.
MCCLUNG
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:52 PM EST, 4 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN
1252 PM EST SAT JUN 3 1989

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST FOR ALL OF MICHIANA...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND
SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 400 PM EST...OR 500 PM EDT.

AT 1245 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR COLUMBIA
CITY INDIANA...10 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE...AND NEAR WABASH
INDIANA...25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM LAGRANGE INDIANA...50 MILES
EAST OF SOUTH BEND...SOUTHWEST TO LAFAYETTE INDIANA.

RAIN WAS FALLING OVER MUCH OF LAKE MICHIGAN FROM CHICAGO NORTHEAST TO
MUSKEGON MICHIGAN. THE PRECIPITATION WAS- MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
MCCLUNG
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:35 PM EST, 3 hours 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
135 PM EST SAT JUN 3 1989

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORHTWEST
OHIO UNTIL 4 PM EST /5 PM EDT/...

AT 130 PM EST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE THROUGH MARION TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARION.
THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN.

BY 230 PM EST THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXTEND FROM 20 MILES EAST
OF FORT WAYNE NEAR PAYNE OHIO TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT{ WAYNE NEAR
BERNE TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION.

ZIMMERMAN
Local storm report, Jun 3, 1:37 PM EST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
STORM REPORT...PRELEMINARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN
135 PM EST SAT JUN 3 1989

TIME      EVENT
0930EST   TORNADO IN NORTHWEST FULTON COUNTY INDIANA ALONG STATE
          ROAD 17 NEAR DELONG INDIANA.  2 OR 3 HOUSE TRAILERS TURNED
          OVER.  3 MINOR INJURIES.  TREES AND POWERS LINES DOWN.
          REPORTED BY FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPT.

0948EST   BRIEF TORNADO TOUCH DOWN REPORTED AT VILLAGE GREEN TRAILER
          PARK ON SOUTHEAST SIDE OF MISHAWAKA INDIANA.  4 MOBILE
          HOMES DAMAGED.  3 POWER LINE POLES DOWN.
          ROOF TAKEN OFF TRUCKING SERVICE BUILDING ON SOUTH BIEGER
          STREET IN MISHAWAKA INDIANA. REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTERS.

1027EST   2 FUNNEL CLOUDS REPORTED AT ETNA GREEN INDIANA IN SOUTHERN
          ELKHART COUNTY.  REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTERS.

1032EST   SEVERAL LARGE TREES REPORTED DOWNED AT BRISTOL INDIANA IN
          NORTHERN ELKHART COUNTY.

1035EST   LARGE TREE REPORTED DOWNED AT EDWARDSBURG MICHIGAN AND
          ANOTHER AT JONES MICHIGAN...IN CASS COUNTY.
MOWERY
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:29 PM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 10:11 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXGrant64 min
Jun 3, 10:55 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBlackford35 min
Jun 3, 11:43 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXAllen3 hr
Jun 3, 11:54 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXDeKalb2 hr
Jun 3, 12:33 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXHuntington2 hr
Jun 3, 1:10 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXWhitley3 hr
Jun 3, 2:01 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXAllen, Huntington3 hr
Jun 3, 2:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXAdams, Wells3 hr
Jun 3, 2:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXBlackford, Grant3 hr
Jun 3, 2:57 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXJay3 hr
Jun 3, 5:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXAllen, Grant, Huntington, Wabash, Wells, Whitley3 hr
Jun 3, 5:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXDeKalb3 hr
Jun 3, 1:26 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXDefiance, Paulding3 hr
Jun 3, 5:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXPaulding3 hr

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.