Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1989, 9:31 AM EST for Adams County, Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1989, 9:31 AM EST (14:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1989, 12:30 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, IN, Allen 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 798 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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, May 25, 4:11 AM EST, 5 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 410 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO... AT 405 AM EST AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... HEAVY RAIN...PEA SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY SURFACE WINDS WAS LOCATED FROM 45 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR LAKE JAMES IN STEUBEN COUNTY OF NORTHEAST INDIANA TO 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR ALBION TO 55 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNT OR NEAR ROCHESTER INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. BY 500 AM EST THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEFIANCE OHIO TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR CHURUBUSCO INDIANA TOE 35 SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR WABASH INDIANA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES. HAYES
Special weather statement, May 25, 4:41 AM EST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 440 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 800 AM EST... AT 435 AM EST AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... HEAVY RAIN...PEA SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY SURFACE WINDS WAS LOCATED FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEFIANCE OHIO TO 20 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE TO 40 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH MANCHESTER TO KOKOMO INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. BY 530 AM EST THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCATED 20 MILES NORTH OF DEFIANCE OHIO TO 5 MILES WEST OF DEFIANCE OHIO TO 35 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OFr FORT WAYNE. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE FORT WAYNE AREA ABOUT 530 AM EST. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES. HAYES
Special weather statement, May 25, 5:08 AM EST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 510 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 800 AM EST... AT 505 AM EST AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... HEAVY RAIN...PEA SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY SURFACE WINDS WAS LOCATED FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF MARION INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. BY 530 AM EST THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR CONVOY OHIO TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION INDIANA OR NEAR REDKEY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES. HAYES
Special weather statement, May 25, 5:29 AM EST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 529 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 8 AM EST... AT 525 AM EST A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF DECATUR IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BY 600 AM EST /700 AM EDT/ THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE LOCATED 30 MILES EAST OF FORT WAYNE OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF PAULDING IN NORTHWEST OHIO. ZIMMERMAN
Special weather statement, May 25, 5:52 AM EST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 552 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 9 AM EDT /8 AM EST/... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST INDIANA... AT 550 AM EST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BY 630 AM EST /730 AM EDT/ THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE MOVED INTO WEST CENTRAL OHIO. ZIMMERMAN
Special weather statement, May 25, 6:29 AM EST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 629 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO... AT 626 AM EST /726 AM EDT/ AN AREA OF THUNDERSHOWERS WAS LOCATED FROM 35 MILES NORTH OF DEFIANCE OHIO TO 25 MILES EAST OF FORT WAYNE. AN AREA OF RAIN SHOWERS WAS LOCATED IN EXTREME NORTHEAST INDINA. ALL OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. REPEATING...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO. ZIMMERMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 9:31 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Wells | 3 hr |
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.