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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Northern Indiana

August 4, 1998Adams County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 1998, 5:49 PM EST for Adams County, Indiana. It was in force for 6 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: Aug 4, 1998, 5:49 PM EST (22:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1998, 11:45 PM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

County Adams County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 042249
FFWFWA
INC001-009-053-075-179-050445-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
549 PM EST TUE AUG 4 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
  ADAMS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA
  BLACKFORD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  GRANT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  JAY COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA
  WELLS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA

* UNTIL 1145 PM EST

* AT 540 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
  WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM JUST NORTH OF MARION TO DECATUR...
  MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.  SPOTTERS IN MARION REPORT
  EXTENSIVE STREET FLOODING IN TOWN WITH OVER 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL.
  ADAMS COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED LOWLAND FLOODING ACROSS THE COUNTY
  WITH SEVERAL ROADS UNDER WATER AND WATER UP TO 3 FEET DEEP IN THE
  TOWN OF GENEVA WHERE THE LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS BEGUN TO
  SANDBAG.

* SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG A STATIONARY
  FRONTAL BOUNDARY FROM LAFAYETTE TO LIMA AND MOVE OFF TO THE EAST
  NORTHEAST OVER THE SAME AREAS.  SOIL MOISTURE CONDITIONS WERE
  BECOMING QUITE SATURATED ACROSS THESE COUNTIES FROM HEAVY RAINFALL
  THROUGHOUT THE DAY TODAY.  ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL LOOKS LIKELY
  THROUGH LATE EVENING WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE IN
  SOME AREAS.

IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS... BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS!

TEH/GL

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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.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 4, 10:00 AM EST, 7 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 10:00 AM EST, 7 hours 49 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1000 AM EST TUE AUG 4 1998

88D/S FROM KIWX AND KLOT SHOW A LARGE AREA OF TSRA MOVING THROUGH
ERN IN AND WRN OH.  ANOTHER AREA OF TSRA IS MOVING THROUGH NERN IL
AND SRN LK MICH.  FOG CONTINUES TO BE A PROBLEM IN AREAS THAT HAVE
RECEIVED RAIN THIS MORNING.  LATEST VIS SAT IMAGRY SHOWS BREAKS IN
CLOUD COVER TO WEST OF FA.  CURRENT CONVECTION SHOULD START TO
TAPER OFF AS H5 S/W MOVES TO E.  SYSTEM OVER NRN PLAINS DOES NOT
MOVE MUCH NEXT 24 HRS SO SCAT TSRA SHOULD BE MAIN WEATHER NEXT 24
HRS AS H5 VORT MAX WITH SYSTEM ROTATES TO E.  H2 DYNAMICS OVER GRT
LKS AREA STILL NOT IMPRESSIVE WITH WIND SPEEDS OF 50-65 KT MAX.
KIWX VWP ALSO* SHOWS SOME VEERING WITH HEIGHT BUT SPEEDS ARE ONLY 10
TO 20 KTS UP THROUGH 20 KFT.  SEVERE WEATHER DOES NOT SEEM LIKE A
GREAT POSSIBILITY.  CURRENT FORECASTS LOOK FINE.

.IWX...NONE.

OHARA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 5:49 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Jay, Wells	6 hr

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.