Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 1993, 3:40 PM EST for Dubois County, Indiana. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 1993, 3:40 PM EST (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 1993, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dubois County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 578 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 KEVV 312047 COR FFWEVV INC037-312245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION TO TIME IN 3RD SENTENCE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 347 PM CDT (340 PM EST) TUE AUG 31 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT (545 PM EST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA ...DUBOIS COUNTY HEAVY RAIN IN PARTS OF DUBOIS COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON HAS CAUSED FLASH FLOODING. OVER 2 AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN JASPER INDIANA BETWEEN 230 AND 330 PM CDT AND STILL RAINING HARD. UP TO TWO FEET OF WATER WAS REPORTED IN THE STREETS IN JASPER. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARnDER 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. BLOCK &
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, Aug 31, 1:10 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
INZALL-010100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 105 PM EST TUE AUG 31 1993 IN INDIANA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANDERSON TO 30 MILES NORTH OF RICHMOND...AND EAST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANDERSON TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MADISON. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... WINCHESTER...RICHMOND...RUSHVILLE... GREENSBURG...LAWRENCEBURG AND MADISON. 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.
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 1:10 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
INZALL-010100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 105 PM EST TUE AUG 31 1993 IN INDIANA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANDERSON TO 30 MILES NORTH OF RICHMOND...AND EAST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANDERSON TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MADISON. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... WINCHESTER...RICHMOND...RUSHVILLE... GREENSBURG...LAWRENCEBURG AND MADISON. 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.
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
INZ009>015-312030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 230 PM EST TUE AUG 31 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR PART OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 8 PM EST... AT 225 PM EST...A BAND OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 35 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM WEST CENTRAL OHIO INTO EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN COLUMBUS AND SEYMOUR IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA. OTHER WEAKER THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAINLY ON THE EAST AND SOUTH SIDES OF THE INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN AREA. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE ALSO OCCURRING ACROSS NORTH CENTRL INDIANA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STEIGERWALDT
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 2:31 PM EST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
INZ009>015-312030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 230 PM EST TUE AUG 31 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR PART OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 8 PM EST... AT 225 PM EST...A BAND OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 35 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM WEST CENTRAL OHIO INTO EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN COLUMBUS AND SEYMOUR IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA. OTHER WEAKER THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAINLY ON THE EAST AND SOUTH SIDES OF THE INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN AREA. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE ALSO OCCURRING ACROSS NORTH CENTRL INDIANA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STEIGERWALDT
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 3:35 PM EST, 5 minutes before
INZ009>015-312130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 335 PM EST TUE AUG 31 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST FOR PART OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST INDIANA. TE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES OF FAYETTE...HENRY... RANDOLPH...RUSH...UNION AND WAYNE. THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR DEARBORN...DECATUR...FRANKLIN... JEFFERSON...JENNNGS...OHIO...RIPLEY AND SWITZERLAND COUNTIES. AT 320 PM EST DOPPLER RADAR AT INDIANAPOLIS INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS CONTINUING TO MOVE THROUGH SOUTHEAST INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE EAST OF A LINE FROM EVANSVILLE TO BROOKVILLE. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS A LITTLE TO THE NORTHEAST OF MADISON INDIANA. THIS STORM WILL CONTAIN BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. OTHER STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON TO EVANSVILLE. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED IN ALL BUT WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. THE LIGHTEST RAIN WAS IN NORTHERN INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. HAINES
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 3:37 PM EST, 3 minutes before
INZ009>015-312130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 335 PM EST TUE AUG 31 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST FOR PART OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST INDIANA. TE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES OF FAYETTE...HENRY... RANDOLPH...RUSH...UNION AND WAYNE. THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR DEARBORN...DECATUR...FRANKLIN... JEFFERSON...JENNNGS...OHIO...RIPLEY AND SWITZERLAND COUNTIES. AT 320 PM EST DOPPLER RADAR AT INDIANAPOLIS INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS CONTINUING TO MOVE THROUGH SOUTHEAST INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE EAST OF A LINE FROM EVANSVILLE TO BROOKVILLE. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS A LITTLE TO THE NORTHEAST OF MADISON INDIANA. THIS STORM WILL CONTAIN BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. OTHER STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON TO EVANSVILLE. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED IN ALL BUT WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. THE LIGHTEST RAIN WAS IN NORTHERN INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. HAINES
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.