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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 28, 1998Owen County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1998, 8:44 PM EST for Owen 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
Jun 28, 1998, 8:44 PM EST (01:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1998, 12:45 AM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Owen County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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 1998-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3145 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1998-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
3145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
6.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 290144
FFWIND
INC119-290545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
844 PM EST SUN JUN 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OWEN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 1245 AM EST

* AT 840 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR SPENCER INDIANA...WHICH IS
  15 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLOOMINGTON... MOVING EAST AT ONLY FIVE MPH.

* OWEN COUNTY SHERIFF HAS REPORTED DITCHES ARE FULL WITH SEVERAL
  INCHES OF WATER ON SOME OF THE ROADS.  HEAVY RAINFALL HAS BEEN
  INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER$ RADAR WITH
  POSSIBLE ACCUMULATIONS OF MORE THAN TWO AND ONE HALF INCHES.

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

CURRAN


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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

Local storm report, Jun 28, 7:46 PM EST, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
655 PM EST JUN 28 1998

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....        ...REMARKS...

650 PM     FREEDOM                   IN   GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL OBSERVED
06/28/98   OWEN                           AND REPORTED BY A OWEN
                                          COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF.

RK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 7:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMorgan34 min
Jun 28, 7:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDOwen33 min
Jun 28, 8:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDOwen34 min
Jun 28, 9:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDOwen63 min
Jun 28, 9:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClay, Vigo45 min
Jun 28, 10:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDOwen48 min
Jun 29, 12:54 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDOwen8 hr
Jun 29, 6:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDVermillion, Warren50 min
Jun 29, 6:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain, Parke51 min
Jun 29, 6:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDVigo51 min
Jun 29, 6:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDTippecanoe34 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 1998Every 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.