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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 2, 1996Vigo County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 1996, 2:40 AM EST for Vigo County, Indiana. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1996, 2:40 AM EST (07:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1996, 3:30 AM EST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Vigo County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1996-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1996-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2467 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 1:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain49 min
Jul 2, 2:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDTippecanoe39 min
Jul 2, 2:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMontgomery, Parke51 min
Jul 2, 2:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDVigo50 min
Jul 2, 2:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDPutnam35 min
Jul 2, 3:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClay29 min
Jul 2, 3:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMorgan43 min
Jul 2, 3:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDPutnam31 min
Jul 2, 4:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDPutnam42 min
Jul 2, 4:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDParke29 min
Jul 2, 4:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMiami25 min
Jul 2, 4:31 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBrown44 min
Jul 2, 5:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJennings50 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.