Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 1994, 4:27 AM EST for Jackson County, Jennings County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 1994, 4:27 AM EST (09:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1994, 7:30 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 487 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 KIND 290928 FFWIND INC071-079-291230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 427 AM EST FRI APR 29 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ...SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA ...SOUTHERN JENNINGS COUNTY AT 420 AM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATED 2 TO 2 AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY FROM 315 TO 415 AM EST. THE AUTOMATED RAIN GAGE AT CROTHERSVILLE IN SOUTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY MEASURED 2.3 INCHES OF RAINFALL EARLY THIS MORNING. AT 425 AM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO FALL ACROSS SOUTHERN JACKSON AND SOUTHERN JENNINGS COUNTIES EARLY THIS MORNING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER 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 BEGI&NS RISING. TMA
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, Apr 29, 3:52 AM EST, 35 minutes before
INZ064-065-070>072-291030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 350 AM EST FRI APR 29 1993 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA EARLY THIS MORNING. AT 350 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF BEDFORD TO SEYMOUR TO NORTH VERNON. THESE STORMS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES PER HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA SHOULD STAY ALERT TO THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS EARLY THIS MORNING. TMA
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 3:55 AM EST, 32 minutes before
INZ064-065-070>072-291030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 350 AM EST FRI APR 29 1994 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA EARLY THIS MORNING. AT 350 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF BEDFORD TO SEYMOUR TO NORTH VERNON. THESE STORMS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES PER HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA SHOULD STAY ALERT TO THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS EARLY THIS MORNING. TMA
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.