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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 9, 1993Daviess County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1993, 3:15 PM CDT for Daviess County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1993, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1993, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Daviess County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 1359 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 092017
FFWEVV
KYC059-092215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
315 PM CDT WED JUN 9 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
 
   ...DAVIESS COUNTY
 
AT 310 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN
MOVING INTO WESTERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY. THIS
STORM...COMBINED WITH RAINS EARLIER TODAY...WILL PRODUCE WIDESPREAD
FLOODING ACROSS THE COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA...GO TO
HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERSL 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, 12:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

INZ014-091600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1212 PM EST WED JUN 9 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL
700 PM EST...
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA
UNTIL 300 PM EST...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA INCLUDES THE AREA
SOUTH OF A LINE FROM JASPER TO SOUTH OF LAWRENCEBURG AND EAST OF LINE
FROM JASPER TO TELL CITY.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSED TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS
IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

MES

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 12:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

INZ014-091600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1212 PM EST WED JUN 9 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL
700 PM EST...
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA
UNTIL 300 PM EST...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA INCLUDES THE AREA
SOUTH OF A LINE FROM JASPER TO SOUTH OF LAWRENCEBURG AND EAST OF LINE
FROM JASPER TO TELL CITY.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSED TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS
IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND TPOSSIBLE WARNINGS.

MES

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:42 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

INZ011-014-100200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
238PM EST WED JUN 9 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EXTENDED FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA HAS BEEN
EXTENDED UNTIL 9 PM CDT/EST THIS EVENING. THIS WATCH ALSO INCLUDES KNOX
COUNTY.  OTHER COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE PIKE...POSEY...SPENCER...VANDERBURGH
...WARRICK...AND GIBSON.   SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE VINCENNES...EVANSVILLE
...AND PRINCETON.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSED TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS
IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

CURRAN

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:42 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

INZ011-014-100200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
238PM EST WED JUN 9 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EXTENDED FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA HAS BEEN
EXTENDED UNTIL 9 PM CDT/EST THIS EVENING. THIS WATCH ALSO INCLUDES KNOX
COUNTY.  OTHER COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE PIKE...POSEY...SPENCER...VANDERBURGH
...WARRICK...AND GIBSON.   SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE VINCENNES...EVANSVILLE
...AND PRINCETON.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSED TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS
IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

CURRAN

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, 6:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Henderson, Union	2 hr
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, 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

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.