Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1998, 7:15 PM EST for Clay County, Owen 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 29, 1998, 7:15 PM EST (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 10:20 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, IN, Owen County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1435 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 300016 FFWIND INC021-119-300320- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 715 PM EST MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA OWEN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 1020 PM EST * AT 700 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN TERRE HAUTXE TO LAFAYETTE... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR WAS INDICTED BY RADAR BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF FLOODING. SJH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Putnam | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 7:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 7:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vermillion | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 7:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 7:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Jun 29, 7:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 7:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 8:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 8:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 8:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Shelby | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 8:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Lawrence | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 8:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 8:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 8:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 8:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 8:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur | 49 min |
Nearby
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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.