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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Indianapolis, IN

March 10, 1992Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 10, 1992, 6:49 AM CST for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 10, 1992, 6:49 AM CST (12:49 UTC)
Expired
Mar 10, 1992, 10:45 AM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Warren County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1992-03-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1992-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
100 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 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 KEVV 101250 RRA
FFWEVV
KYC227-101645-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
649 AM CST TUE MAR 10 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...WARREN COUNTY
 
AT 648 AM THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE MOVING INTO THE
BOWLING GREEN AREA. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRAITON IN BOWLING GREEN
REPORTED ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH IN RAIN FELL BETWEEN 630 AM AND CST
640 AM CST...THERE WAS NO DECREASE IN INTENSITY OF RAINFALL AT 645 AM
CST.
 
THIS RAIN COMBINED WITH RECENT HEAVY RAINS WILL RESULT IN RAPID
FLOODING. PERSONS IN LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
IMMEDIATLY.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.)  CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
HOOPER

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, Mar 10, 3:40 AM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes before
INZ001>003-101230

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
440 AM EST TUE MAR 10 1992

A SNOW ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST INDIANA FOR TODAY AND
TONIGHT.  A WEATHER ADVISORY HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED FOR EXTREME NORTH
CENTRAL INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHEAST INDIANA FOR TODAY.

THE ADVISORY AREAS IS FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE FROM 30
MILES SOUTH OF GARY TO ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE.

VERY COLD ARCTIC AIR BLOWING ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE
SIGNIFICANT LAKE EFFECT SNOWS OVER NORTHWEST INDIANA LATER TODAY AND
TONIGHT.  THERE MAY BE AS MUCH AS 4 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW IMMEDIATELY
SOUTH OF LAKE MICHIGAN BY LATE TONIGHT.  TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF SNOW MAY
FALL THERE BY THIS EVENING.

OVER THE REMAINDER OF EXTREME NORTHERN INDIANA ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE
AROUND 2 INCHES TODAY.  FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET EARLY THIS MORNING MAY
ALSO PRODUCE SLICK ROADS. WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL ALS#O PRODUCE SOME
BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.

MOTORISTS TRAVELING TODAY...SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.  YOU WILL ALSO WANT TO DRESS VERY WARMLY AS WIND CHILLS WILL
BE DROPPING TO BELOW ZERO.
HENDRICKSON
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 5:33 AM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
INZ001>009-101330

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
630 AM EST TUE MAR 10 1992

A WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHERN INDIANA FOR TODAY.
IN EXTREME NORTHWEST INDIANA THERE IS A SNOW ADVISORY FOR BOTH TODAY AND
TONIGHT.

SHORTLY AFTER 6 AM...FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET EXTENDED FROM SOUTH BEND TO
LAFAYATTE AND CRAWFORDSVILLE.  SNOW WAS FALLING OVER THE EXTREME
NORTHWEST CORNER OF OUR STATE.

AN OBSERVER IN MONTICELLO AROUND 6 AM REPORTED THAT GRASSY AREAS WERE
BECOMING WHITE WITH SLEET.  STATE POLICE REPORTED THAT ROADS OVER
EXTREME NORTHWEST INDIANA HAD SCATTERED ICY SPOTS.

THE PRECIPITATION WILL CHANGE OVER TO SNOW IN THE LAFAYATTE AND KOKOMO
AREAS BY MID MORNING...AND IN THE FORT WAYNE AND INDIANAPOLIS AREAS BY
LATE MORNING.  SOME FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL OCCUR IN THESE AREAS
BEFORE THE CHANGEOVER.

BECAUSE OF THE WARM ROAD SURFACES...DRIVING HAS NOT BECOME A MAJOR
PROBLEM YET.  HOWEVER MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS. YOU WILL ALSO WANT TO DRESS VERY WARMLY AS WIND
CHILLS WILL BE DROPPING TO NEAR OR BELOW ZERO.

SNOW ACCUMULATIONS LATER TODAY WILL RANGE FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES OVER
EXTREME NOaRTHWEST INDIANA AND AROUND TWO INCHES IN THE REMAINDER OF THE
NORTH.  IN CENTRAL INDIANA SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF AN INCH OR LESS MAY
OCCUR BY LATE AFTERNOON.

HENDRICKSON
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 6:28 AM CST, 21 minutes before
INZ001>009-011-101930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
727 AM EST TUE MAR 10 1992

WEATHER ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED TO INCLUDE MUCH OF INDIANA
ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM VINCENNES TO PORTLAND THROUGH EARLY
AFTERNOON.

A WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE DAY IN EXTREME
NORTHERN INDIANA...AND FOR BOTH TODAY AND TONIGHT IN EXTREME NORTHWEST
INDIANA.

SHORTLY AFTER 700 AM EST A MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WAS
OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN AND WEST CENTRAL INDIANA.  A MIXTURE OF
FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW WAS OCCURRING WITHIN 30 MILES OF
INDIANAPOLIS.  THE PRECIPITATION HAS CHANGED OVER TO ALL SNOW AT
LAFAYATTE AND THE VISIBILITY THERE WAS DOWN TO A HALF OF A MILE.

THE PRECIPITATION WILL CHANGE OVER TO SNOW IN THE FORT WAYNE AND
INDIANAPOLIS AREAS BY LATE MORNING.  SOME FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL
OCCUR IN THESE AREAS BEFORE THE CHANGEOVER.

MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. YOU
WILL ALSO WANT TO DRESS VERY WARMLY AS WIND CHILLS WILL BE DROPPING TO
NEAR OR BELOW ZERO.

SNOW ACCUMULATIONS LATER TODAY WILL RANGE FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES OVER
EXTREME NORTHWEST INDIANA AND AROUND TWO INCHES IN THE REMAINDER OF THE
NORTH.  IN CENTRAL INDIANA SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE AROUND AN INCH.
HENDRICKSON

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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.