Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Dec 30, 1992, 10:12 PM EST for DeKalb County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 1992, 10:12 PM EST (03:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 1992, 1:15 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County DeKalb 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 180 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 310313 FFWFWA INC033-310615- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 1012 PM EST WED DEC 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST INDIANA ...DEKALB COUNTY A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR CEDAR CREEK IN DEKALB COUNTY INDIANA. RAINFALL OF OVER ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES /1.77/ ACROSS NORTHEAST INDIANA WILL PUSH CEDAR CREEK OUT OF ITS BANKS TONIGHT. CEDAR CREEK AT AUBURN INDIANA IS FORECAST TO CREST AROUND 12 FEET LATE THURSDAY NIGHT...ONE FOOT ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. PERSONS NEAR CEDAR CREEK SHOULD TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION NOW. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. SALS>BURY
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, Dec 30, 7:48 PM EST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-007-008-310245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 745 PM EST WED DEC 30 1992 ...STREET FLOODING AND LOW LYING AREA FLOODING IN MICHIANA... FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS ACROSS SOUTHERN ST JOSEPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED BY THE ST JOSEPH COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT. KERN ROAD AND ROOSEVELT ROAD HAVE AREAS UNDERWATER THIS EVENING. RAIN...THAT HAS BEEN FALLING ALL DAY...HAD TOTALED 1.73 INCHES AT 7 PM AT THE MICHIANA REGIONAL AIRPORT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED MORE RAIN OVER SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AT 740 PM EST. THIS WOULD INDICATE MORE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. IF YOU ARE OUT DRIVING THIS EVENING WATCH FOR HIGH WATER. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH AREAS OF HIGH WATER. REPORT ANY FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMANT AGENCY OR TO A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. GALLAGHER
Special weather statement, Dec 30, 10:02 PM EST, 10 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-007-008-310500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 1000 PM EST WED DEC 30 1992 ...STREET FLOODING AND LOW LYING AREA FLOODING IN MICHIANA TONIGHT... MICHIANA HAS RECEIVED STEADY RAIN FALL THROUGH OUT MUCH OF TODAY. THE TOTAL RAIN FALL RECORDED AT THE MICHIANA REGIONAL AIRPORT AT 10 PM EST. WAS 1.94 INCH. SOME FLOODING OF ROADS HAD OCCURRED SOUTH OF SOUTH BEND ON KERN AND ROOSEVELT ROADS. AT 1000 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AND WILL BE OUT OF MICHIANA BY MIDNIGHT EST. IF YOU SEE FLOODED STREETS ARE LOW LYING AREAS REPORT THE INFORMATION TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY *OR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. IF YOU ARE OUT DRIVING TONIGHT WATCH FOR HIGH WATER. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH AREAS OF HIGH WATER. GALLAGHER
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.