Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1995, 3:47 PM EST for Jackson County, Jennings County, Lawrence County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 3:47 PM EST (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Lawrence County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 520 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 18, 12:44 PM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
INZ067-081-082-085>088-190000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1243 PM EST THU MAY 18 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 7 PM EST/CDT... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 7 PM EST/CDT. THE WATCH IS SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF VINCENNES TO TELL CITY. SOME CITIES INCLUDE IN THE WATCH ARE... EVANSVILLE...VINCENNES...NEW HARMONY...BOONVILLE...PETERSBURG. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER ILLINOIS WILL MOVE EAST INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. MES
Local storm report, May 18, 2:38 PM EST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
237 PM EST THU MAY 18 1995
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
EXAMPLES:
0215 PM 10 MI EAST OF DANVILLE IN UNCONFIRMED TORNADO
05/18/95 VERMILLION REPORTED BY PUBLIC
AT HIGHWAY 63 AND I-74
INTERSECTIONLocal storm report, May 18, 2:44 PM EST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
237 PM EST THU MAY 18 1995
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
0215 PM 10 MI EAST OF DANVILLE IN UNCONFIRMED TORNADO
05/18/95 VERMILLION REPORTED BY PUBLIC
AT HIGHWAY 63 AND I-74
INTERSECTIONSpecial weather statement, May 18, 3:46 PM EST, 1 minute before
INZ001>092-190400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 345 PM EST THU MAY 18 1995 IN INDIANA A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF TERRE HAUTE TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CONNERSVILLE... AND EAST OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF VINCENNES TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF TERRE HAUTE. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE EVANSVILLE...BLOOMINGTON...COLUMBUS... JASPER...BEDFORD...NEW ALBANY...LAWRENCEBURG...GREENSBURG. THIS WATCH REPLACES TORNADO WATCH 439 IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS 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. ELSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 1:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Greene, Sullivan | 6 hr |
| May 18, 1:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Lawrence | 6 hr |
| May 18, 2:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Gibson, Knox, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 4 hr |
| May 18, 2:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Dubois, Perry | 4 hr |
| May 18, 2:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Daviess | 4 hr |
| May 18, 2:23 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Spencer | 4 hr |
| May 18, 2:44 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Jackson | 6 hr |
| May 18, 4:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jennings | 4 hr |
| May 18, 3:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe | 4 hr |
| May 18, 3:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Sullivan, Vigo | 4 hr |
| May 18, 3:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Owen | 4 hr |
| May 18, 3:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Clinton | 46 min |
| May 18, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Pike | 54 min |
| May 18, 3:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks, Marion, Montgomery, Morgan, Putnam | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Fountain, Parke, Vermillion | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Johnson | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Delaware, Henry, Randolph | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Decatur, Hancock, Rush, Shelby | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Madison | 3 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.