Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 1996, 11:01 PM EST for Daviess County, Knox County, Indiana. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1996, 11:01 PM EST (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1996, 3:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Daviess County, IN, Knox County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 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 110402 FFWIND INC027-083-101-110800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1101 PM EST FRI MAY 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA ...DAVIESS COUNTY...KNOX COUNTY...MARTIN COUNTY AT 1100 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN INDIANA. WEATHER RADAR ESTIMATED PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS FROM ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN KNOX... SOUTHERN DAVIESS...AND SOUTHERN MARTIN COUNTIES FROM 930 PM TO 1030 PM EST. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TONIGHT IN THE WARNED COUNTIES. THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED AND ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. 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. 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, May 10, 6:10 PM EST, 4 hours 51 minutes before
INZ050-058-059-064>092-110100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 610 PM EST FRI MAY 10 1996 ...PORTION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF CINCINNATI TO 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF EVANSVILLE TO 40 MMILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR SEVERAL COUNTIES ALONG AND NEAR THE OHIO RIVER FROM CINCINNATI TO LOUISVILLE. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH EXTREME SOUTHERN INDIANA. AT 600 PM THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG THE OHIO RIVER COUNTIES FROM LOUISVILLE TO LAWRENCEBURG INDIANA. THE STORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF INDIANA BY 700 PM EST. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND 1 INCH AN HOUR...VERY STRONG WINDS AND INTENSE LIGHTNING. THE HEAVY RAINFALL ON TOP OF SATURATED GROUND MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. HAINES
Special weather statement, May 10, 7:21 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
INZ072>080-084-089>092-110130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 720 PM EST FRI MAY 10 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR ALL OF INDIANA... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR ANY PORTION OF INDIANA. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH OF THE STATE. SHOWERS WITH IMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME SOUTHERN INDIANA WILL BECOME SCATTERED THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT MOST OF INDIANA THROUGH THE NIGHT. HAINES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 11:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Martin | 4 hr |
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.