Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 1992, 10:12 PM EST for Adams County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1992, 10:12 PM EST (03:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1992, 1:15 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 1591 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFWA 170312
FFWFWA
INC001-170615-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
1012 PM EST THU JUL 16 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF INDIANA
ADAMS
AT 1010 PM EST HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING OVER ADAMS COUNTY INDIANA.
WITH THE ST MARYS RIVER ALREADY AT 24 FEET AT DECATUR AND WITH THE
GROUND SOAKED...SERIOUS FLOODING WILL TAKE PLACE IN ADAMS COUNTY
THROUGH 100 AM EST.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS IMMINENT. TAKE NECESSARY
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FLOODING IMMEDIATELY.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE
FLOOD DANGERS AND WASHED OUT ROADS.
OBEY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS. WHEN AUTHORITIES GIVE YOU
DIRECTIONS TO EVACUATE, FOLLOW THEIR DIRECTIONS.
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, Jul 16, 8:13 PM EST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 812 PM EST THU JUL 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD PART OF NORTHEAST INDIANA... AT 805 PM EST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...WAS LOCATED 40 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PORTLAND INDIANA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IT WILL BE 45 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR REDKEY BY 830 PM EST AND WILL BE 41 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR PORTLAND BY 845 PM EST. PEOPLE IN JAY COUNTY IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD STAY INSIDE AS THE STORM PASSES. ROADS MAY BECOME FLOODED DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS. DONT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. HAYES
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 8:49 PM EST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-007-008-170145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 845 PM EST THU JUL 16 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MICHIANA AREA... AT 840 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA BETWEEN KNOX AND WINAMAC. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS THAT EXTENDED WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND NEAR THREE RIVERS MICHIGAN...SOUTHWEST TO LOGANSPORT INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE MICHIANA AREA THROUGH THE EVENING BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. TA
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 9:13 PM EST, 59 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-170230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 910 PM EST THU JUL 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN PARTS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA... AT 905 PM EST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WAS 46 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE OR JUST SOUTH OF PORTLAND. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST OUT OF JAY COUNTY INTO WESTERN OHIO BY 930 PM0 EST OR 1030 PM EDT. PEOPLE IN JAY COUNTY IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD STAY INSIDE AS THE STORM PASSES. ROADS MAY BECOME FLOODED DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS. DONT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. HAYES
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.