Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1989, 11:43 AM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1989, 11:43 AM EST (16:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1989, 2:45 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFWA 031643
FFWFWA
INC003-031945-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
1143 AM EST SAT JUN 3 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF INDIANA
ALLEN
AT 1130 AM EST THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING
ACROSS THE CITY OF FORT WAYNE AND WILL REMAIN IN THE CITY
OF FORT WAYNE FOR 1 OR MORE HOURS. RAINFALLS IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH
WERE REPORTED AT BAER FIELD. MANY ROADS WERE FLOOD OUT.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS IMMINENT. TAKE NECESSARY
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FLOODING IMMEDIATEL_Y.
SEEK SAFETY BEFORE FLOWING WATER BLOCKS YOUR ESCAPE ROUTE. STAY
AWAY FROM FLOODED STREAMS...STORM DRAINS AND DITCHES.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM ON FOOT OR IN A VEHICLE.
RAPIDLY RISING WATER MAY SWEEP YOU AWAY.
HAYESWhat 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, 9:12 AM EST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 905 AM EST SAT JUN 3 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 900 AM EST...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN ACROSS BERRIEN COUNTY OF SOUTHWESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN SOUTHWARD ACROSS EASTERN LA PORTE COUNTY AND STARKE COUNTY IN NORTHERN INDIANA. RADAR INDICATED A BOW ECHO INDICATIVE VERY STRONG WINDS ENTERING SOUTHERN ST. JOSEPH COUNTY INDIANA. PEOPLE IN WALKERTON INDIANA...20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR VERY STRONG WIND GUSTS AS THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PASS THROUGH. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...iHEAVY RAIN... POSSIBLE SOME SMALL HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT OF THE LINE OF STORMS IS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. MONTE WHEELER
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 10:00 AM EST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 1000 AM EST SAT JUN 3 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST INDIANA... AT 1000 AM EST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM WEST OF A LINE FROM SOUTH BEND INDIANA TO 20 MILE SOUTH OF MARION INDIANA. THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. BY 1100 AM EST THIS LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCATED FROM 40 MILES EAST OF SOUTH BEND TO 10 MILES EAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION INDIANA. THE STORMS HAVE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. HAIL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY. SOME FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS ...DRAINAGE DITCHES AND LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE. WITSAMAN
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 11:25 AM EST, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 1125 AM EST SAT JUN 3 1989 ....TORNADO WARNINGS PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR CASS AND ST JOSEPH COUNTIES IN MICHIGAN...AND ELKHART AND KOSCUISKO COUNTIES IN INDIANA HAVE EXPIRED AS OF 11 15 AM EST...12 15 PM EDT. ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4PM EST...5PM EDT FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND MOST NORTHERN INDIANA.... THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL TORNADOES HAVE MOVED EAST INTO NORTHEAST INDIANA AND THOSE OVER SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN HAVE WEAKENED. PERSONS IN NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE REDEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TGHIS AFTERNOON. MOWERY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 10:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 64 min |
| Jun 3, 10:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 11:54 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 12:33 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Huntington | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 1:10 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Whitley | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, Huntington | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:57 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Jay | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, Grant, Huntington, Wabash, Wells, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Adams | 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.