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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 14, 1998Hancock County, Henry County, Rush County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1998, 9:13 PM EST for Hancock County, Henry County, Rush County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 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: Jun 14, 1998, 9:13 PM EST (02:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1998, 12:15 AM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hancock County, IN, Henry County, IN, Rush County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 98 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 150215
FFWIND
INC005-031-059-065-139-150515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
913 PM EST SUN JUN 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  DECATUR COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  HANCOCK COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  HENRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
  RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 1215 AM EST

* AT 910 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM NEWCASTLE TO
  COLUMBUS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN IS
LIKLEY IN A SHORT PERIOD WITH THESE STORMS.

DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!

JAS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:00 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam	3 hr
Jun 14, 7:00 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Tippecanoe, Vermillion	3 hr
Jun 14, 7:00 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton	3 hr
Jun 14, 7:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	16 min
Jun 14, 8:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Marion, Morgan	49 min
Jun 14, 8:32 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Johnson, Marion, Shelby	3 hr
Jun 14, 9:13 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur	3 hr
Jun 14, 10:02 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Parke, Putnam	118 min
Jun 14, 10:02 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Vermillion	118 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 1998 Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.