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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 3, 1992Henderson County, Union County, Kentucky; Posey County, Vanderburgh County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 1992, 12:04 AM CDT for Henderson County, Union County, Kentucky; Posey County, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1992, 12:04 AM CDT (05:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1992, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Posey County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Henderson County, KY, Union County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 00:00Z on 1992-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3595 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 00:00Z on 1992-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 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
3595 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 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 030507
FFWEVV
INC129-163-KYC101-225-030815-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
1204 AM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
 
   ...POSEY COUNTY...VANDERBURGH COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
 
   ...HENDERSON COUNTY...UNION COUNTY
 
AT 1159 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING
THROUGH THE IMMEDIATE EVANSVILLE INDIANA AND INTO THE HENDERSON KENTUCKY
AREAS. THE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED OVER ONE INCH AND A HALF DURING THE LAST
HOUR AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE. THE STORMS WILL
CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHERN POSEY COUNTY...FROM NEAR
MOUNT VERNON INDIANA TO STURGIS AND HENDERSON KENTUCKY AREAS BY 1245 PM
CDT AND WILL PRODUCE FLOODING IN THESE AREAS. YOU SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER .BEGINS RISING.
TT

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, Jul 2, 6:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
INZALL-030300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
625 PM EST THU JUL  2 1992

IN INDIANA THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST
AND INCLUDES A PART OF SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL INDIANA EAST OF A LINE
FROM 10 MILE SOUTH OF RICHMOND TO SALEM AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM SALEM
TO MADISON.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... GREENSBURG...NORTH VERNON...MADISON AND
LAWRENCEBURG.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
JEH
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 8:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
INZALL-030300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
808 PM EST THU JUL 2 1992

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL...WEST CENTRAL
AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST.  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST.

THE WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT SOUTH OF A LINE FROM RICHMOND...TO
INDIANAPOLIS TO 20 MILES NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE INDIANA.  NORTH OF THIS
LINE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED.

IN ADDITION TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOS...
VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THE STORMS FROM EXTENDING FROM
TERRE HAUTE...THROUGH BLOOMINGTON AND INDIANAPOLIS...TO RMICHMOND.
THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH.  HEAVY RAINS CAN QUICKLY
FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS.  DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROADS.

FREQUENT...AND DANGEROUS...LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH SOME OF
THESE STORMS.

ELSON
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 8:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
INZALL-030700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
843 PM EST THU JUL  2 1992

IN INDIANA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 531 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200
AM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM
SULLIVAN TO SEYMOUR TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST INDIANA
UNTIL 10 PM EST.  THIS AREA IS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTH
OF RICHMOND TO SALEM TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF SDF.

ALL TORNADO WATCHES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE ARE
EVANSVILLE...WASHINGTON AND CORYDON.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE6 FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

HENDRICKSON
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 9:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
INZALL-030700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1035 PM EST THU JUL  2 1992

IN INDIANA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EST AND
INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA...SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES WEST OF
LAFAYATTE TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCHES ARE...KOKOMO...TERRE HAUTE...INDIANAPOLIS
...GREENSBURG...RICHMOND...SEYMOUR AND EVASVILLE.

REMEMBER...A WATC&H MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

HENDRICKSON
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 10:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
INZALL-030700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1010 PM EST THU JUL  2 1992

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EST AND
INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA...SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES WEST OF
LAFAYETTE TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCHES ARE...KOKOMO...TERRE HAUTE...
INDIANAPOLIS...GREENSBURG...RICHMOND...SEYMOUR AND EVANSVILLE.

AT 1005 PM EST A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WAS OVER MOST OF CENTRAL INDIANA.
THE BACK EDGE OF THIS AREA WAS FROM NEAR LAFAYETTE SOUTHEAST THROUGH
INDIANAPOLIS AND COLUMBUS. THE AREA WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG WINDS WERE CONTINUING TO MOVE TOWARDj INDIANA
FROM CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO INDIANA BETWEEN
11 PM AND MIDNIGHT.

WJG
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 11:28 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
INZ006>015-030530-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1125 PM EST WED JUN 24 1992

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED NORTH OF A LINE FROM
FROM DANVILLE ILLINOIS...TO INDIANAPOLIS TO RICHMOND.  IT STILL REMAINS
IN EFFECT ALONG AND SLOUTH OF THIS LINE UNTIL 200 AM EST.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKEND DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS ACROSS
CENTRAL INDIANA.  HOWEVER THERE IS STILL AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
OVER SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS WHICH HAS THE POTENTIAL OF AFFECTING THE
SOUTHERN HALF OF OUR STATE AFTER MIDNIGHT.

AT 1120 PM EST THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF
VINCENNES TO NEAR SAINT LOUIS.  OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE
APPROACHING THE TERRE HAUTE AND SULLIVAN AREAS.  MOST OF THE
PRECIPITATION OVER THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN INDIANA WAS
AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN.

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES PER
HOUR.

HENDRIC)KSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningINDDecatur, Rush27 min
Jul 2, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDOwen25 min
Jul 2, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMonroe25 min
Jul 2, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDGreene, Sullivan33 min
Jul 2, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBrown, Jackson, Lawrence68 min
Jul 2, 8:20 PM CDTTornado WarningINDDaviess, Martin40 min
Jul 2, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDKnox49 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1992Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992

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.