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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Indianapolis, IN

March 10, 19904 counties in Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 10, 1990, 6:45 PM EST for 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 1990, 6:45 PM EST (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 1990, 10:40 PM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Boone County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Marion County, IN, Putnam 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KIND 102348
FFWIND
INC165-121-133-063-011-057-095-097-100300-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
645 PM EST SAT MAR 10 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL INDIANA
...VERMILLION...PARKE...PUTNAM...HENDRICKS...BOONE...MARION...HAMILTON
AND MADISON.

VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS MOVING THROUGH SECTIONS
OF CENTRAL AND WEST-CENTRAL INDIANA WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING THIS
EVENING. RAINFALL OF 1 TO 1.60 INCHES IN 20 MINUTES HAVE OCCURRED IN
SOUTHERN VERMILLION...PARKE AND MADISON COUNTIES.

ROADS...SMALL CREEKS...DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES WILL QUICKLY FLOOD.

A COUNTY ROAD WASHED OUT NEAR NEWPORT IN VERMILLION COUNTY. AT
BLOOMINGDALE IN PARKE COUNTY DITCHES WERE OVERFLOWING. STATE ROAD 9
NORTH OF ALEXANDRIA IN MADISON COUNTY ALSO FLOODED.

PERSONS LIVING NEAR STREAMS AND DITCHES SHOULD BE ALERT TO FLOODING
AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF WATER RISES RAPIDLY. STAY AWAY FROM FLOODED
STREAMS AND OVERFLOWING CULVERTS.

MOTORIST TRAVELLING THROUGH THIS AREA SHOULD AVOID DRIVING THROUGH
FLOWING WATERS OR FLOODED ROADS.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. ANOTHER AREA OF
THUNDERSTORMS IN ILLINOIS WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SAME AREA AND COULD
REACH IT LATER THIS EVENING.

KOLDITZ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 4:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Warren	49 min
Mar 10, 4:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	31 min
Mar 10, 5:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Parke	40 min
Mar 10, 5:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	40 min
Mar 10, 6:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke, Putnam	54 min
Mar 10, 6:45 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hamilton, Madison	4 hr
Mar 10, 6:45 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	4 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.