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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana

July 13, 1992Jay County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1992, 5:50 AM EST for Jay County, Indiana. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1992, 5:50 AM EST (10:50 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1992, 8:00 AM EST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Jay County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1992-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1710 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1992-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 165 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
1710 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1068 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
323 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
9.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 131050
FFWFWA
INC009-053-075-131300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
550 AM EST MON JUL 13 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...BLACKFORD COUNTY...GRANT COUNTY...JAY COUNTY
 
AT 545 AM EST /645 AM EDT/...HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED ACROSS
GRANT...BLACKFORD...AND JAY COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. SHERIFFS
DEPARTMENTS REPORTED WATER OVER LOW LYING SPOTS ON MANY COUNTY AND STATE
ROADS. STREET FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN HARTFORD CITY INDIANA.
 
 
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.
 
SALSBURY

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 13, 4:21 AM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-131115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
420 AM EST MON JUL 13 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
INDIANA...

AT 415 AM EST /515 AM EDT/...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF
A LINE WHICH EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA TO 25
MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF WABASH INDIANA /NEAR WABASH/ TO 30 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF MARION INDIANA /NEAR REDKEY/. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

BY 615 AM EST /715 AM EDT/...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
SCATTERED OVER ALL OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO. THE
STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCATED FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF MARION
INDIANA TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION.

A FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ST MARYS RIVER IN NORTHEAST
INDIANA THIS MORNING.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

SALSBURY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 5:50 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXBlackford, Grant2 hr

Nearby

Flash 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.