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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 17, 1995Hancock County, Kentucky; Perry County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 1995, 5:32 AM CDT for Hancock County, Kentucky; Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1995, 5:32 AM CDT (10:32 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1995, 8:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Perry County, IN, Hancock County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 552 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 964 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 397 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 171033
FFWEVV
INC123-147-173-KYC059-091-171330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
532 AM CDT (532 AM EST) WED MAY 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 AM CDT (830 AM EST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
 
   ...PERRY COUNTY...SPENCER COUNTY...WARRICK COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
 
   ...DAVIESS COUNTY...HANCOCK COUNTY
 
AT 533 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING INTO PERRY...SPENCER AND WARRICK COUNTIES IN SOUTH INDIANA...AND
DAVIESS AND HANCOCK IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. IF YOU ARE IN A
FLOOD PRONE AREA...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW.
 
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 BEGINS RISING.
 
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, May 17, 1:01 AM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

INZ035>037-039>089-170700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
101 AM EST WED MAY 17 1995

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST
INDIANA EXPIRED AT 100 AM EST. THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND
SOUTHERN INDIANA CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT.

AT 100 AM EST THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EVANSVILLE TO COLUMBUS TO
RICHMOND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEAKENING AND THE NO LONGER APPEARS TO BE A THREAT
OF SEVERE WEATHER.

HEAVY RAINFALL REMAINS LIKELY AS ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA DURING THE EARLY
MORNING HOURS. FLOODING OF ROADS...ESPECIALLY IN LOW AREAS...IS
LIKELY AND MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS
THE ROAD.

ZIMMERMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 4:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Henderson	3 hr
May 17, 5:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess	3 hr
May 17, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hopkins, McLean, Webster	53 min
May 17, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Hancock, Ohio	38 min
May 17, 1:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Dubois, Gibson, Pike	6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1995 Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 1995 Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.