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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 9, 1993Henderson County, Union County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1993, 6:40 AM CDT for Henderson County, Union County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1993, 6:40 AM CDT (11:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1993, 8:45 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Henderson County, KY, Union County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1868 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 4.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 091142
FFWEVV
KYC101-225-091345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
640 AM CDT WED JUN 9 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
 
   ...HENDERSON COUNTY...UNION COUNTY
 
AT 626 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO FORM AND
MOVE ACROSS UNION AND HENDERSON COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY. REPORTS
FROM THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT FROM THESE COUNTIES STATED NUMEROUS AREA
ROADWAYS UNDER WATER AND INPASSABLE. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL THIS MORNING DO
NOT CROSS ROADWAYS THAT ARE FLOODED.
 
 
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.
 
 
 
MM
&&&&

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, Jun 9, 3:50 AM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before

INZALL-091800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
350 AM EST WED JUN 9 1993

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST FOR MOST
OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA.

THE WATCH AREA INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM
30 MILES NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE INDIANAPOLIS...MUNCIE...TERRE HAUTE...RICHMOND
CRAWFORDSVILLE...BLOOMINGTON...COLUMBUS...AND LEBANON.

THE WATCH AREA DOES NOT INCLUDE THOSE COUNTIES ALONG THE OHIO RIVER.

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.
.
ANSUINI

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

INZALL-091800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
350 AM EST WED JUN 9 1993

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST FOR MOST
OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA.

THE WATCH AREA INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM
30 MILES NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE INDIANAPOLIS...MUNCIE...TERRE HAUTE...RICHMOND
CRAWFORDSVILLE...BLOOMINGTON...COLUMBUS...AND LEBANON.

THE WATCH AREA DOES NOT INCLUDE THOSE COUNTIES ALONG THE OHIO RIVER.

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.
.
ANSUINI

Local storm report, Jun 9, 5:40 AM CDT, 1 hour before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
540 AM EST WED JUN 9 1993

...SUMMARY OF SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS RECEIVED FOR MORNING OF JUNE 9...

TIME           LOCATION      EVENT

410 AM EST     JOHNSON CO    6-8 HOUSES DAMAGED...BARN COLLAPSED...
                             SEVERAL TREES...POWER LINES AND POWER
                             POLES KNOCKED DOWN IN GREENWOOD. BY
                             JOHNSON CO SHERIFF.

TMA

Local storm report, Jun 9, 5:43 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
540 AM EST WED JUN 9 1993

...SUMMARY OF SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS RECEIVED FOR MORNING OF JUNE 9...

TIME           LOCATION      EVENT

410 AM EST     JOHNSON CO    6-8 HOUSES DAMAGED...BARN COLLAPSED...
                             SEVERAL TREES...POWER LINES AND POWER
                             POLES KNOCKED DOWN IN GREENWOOD. BY
                             JOHNSON CO SHERIFF.

TMA2

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:46 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

INZ008-009-010-011-012-013-014-091145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
546 AM EST (446 AM CST) WED JUN 9 1993

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND
SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 9 AM EST.

AT 540 AM EST RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
BLOOMINGTON TO INDIANAPOLIS AND FROM INDIANAPOLIS EAST THROUGH
RICHMOND.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLOOMINGTON...NEAR THE
TOWN OF MORGANTOWN.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM CRAWFORDSVILLE WEST ALONG INTERSTATE 74
TOWARD COVINGTON.

ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL.

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:46 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

INZ008-009-010-011-012-013-014-091145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
546 AM EST (446 AM CST) WED JUN 9 1993

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND
SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 9 AM EST.

AT 540 AM EST RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
BLOOMINGTON TO INDIANAPOLIS AND FROM INDIANAPOLIS EAST THROUGH
RICHMOND.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLOOMINGTON...NEAR THE
TOWN OF MORGANTOWN.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM CRAWFORDSVILLE WEST ALONG INTERSTATE 74
TOWARD COVINGTON.

ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 5:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henderson	38 min
Jun 9, 7:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess	3 hr
Jun 9, 8:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Henderson, Union	118 min
Jun 9, 10:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess	83 min
Jun 9, 11:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Grayson, Ohio	40 min
Jun 9, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Muhlenberg, Ohio	64 min
Jun 9, 3:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess	2 hr
Jun 9, 5:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess	49 min
Jun 9, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Hancock	30 min

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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.