Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Northern Indiana

Issued

Jul 4, 1998, 1:21 AM EST (06:21 UTC)

Expired

Jul 4, 1998, 4:25 AM EST

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Northern Indiana

Area

Whole counties

Counties Cass County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Miami County, IN

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:20 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.

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TTAA00 KFWA 040622
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INC017-049-103-040925-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
121 AM EST SAT JUL 4 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
  CASS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  MIAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 425 AM EST

* AT 0115 AM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM MONTICELLO TO
  LOGANSPORT TO PERU ... MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH MPH.

* VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN THESE AREAS. THUNDERSTORMS
  CONTINUE TO TRAIFN FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS CASS AND MIAMI
  COUNTIES. WATER UP TO 4 FEET DEEP ACROSS PARTS OF FULTON COUNTY.

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

TEH/JLA

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 3, 7:57 PM EST, 5 hours 24 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
757 PM EST FRI JUL 3 1998

00Z MESO ANALYSIS SHOWING CURRENT CONVECTION ACRS N IL AND S LM IN
RESPONSE TO SW ENERGY INVOF NE IA SW WI AND SFC COLD FRONT.  LOOKS
LIKE FAIR PUSH WITH FRONT GIVEN LARGE 3HR PRESSURE FALLS.  BEST
MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND HIGHER THETA-E NOW WORKING INTO NW IN.
ADAS PUTS FRONT FROM NORTH OF ORD TO OMA WITH BEST INSTABILITY
SPREADING EASTWARD.

00Z RAOBS FROM ILX AND DVN INDICATE CAPES 2-3K J/KG.  HEAVY RAIN A
GOOD BET BASED ON DVN DEEP LYR MOISTURE WITH PW OVER 2 INCHES. SVR
WX THREAT WOULD SEEM SLIGHT GIVEN UNIMPRESSIVE SHEAR VALUES BUT
MODIFIED NSHARP DOES SHOW MUCH HIGHER SREH VALUES WITH
SOUTHEASTWARD MOVING STORMS.  THIS INDEED THE CASE WITH CURRENT
SEVERE CONVECTIVE CLUSTER NEAR ORD.

EXTRAPOLATION OF CURRENT LEADING PRECIP EDGE WOULD PUT IT INTO NW OH
COUNTIES CLOSE TO MIDNIGHT.  CURRENT FORECAST LOOK TO HAVE PRETTY
GOOD HANDLE ON THINGS OTHERWISE.

.IWX...NONE.

TEH

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1106 PM EST FRI JUL 03 1998

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

1052 PM    1 E SILVER LAKE           IN    TORNADO
07/03/98   KOSCIUSKO                       TORNADO REPORTED ON
                                           GROUND BY SPOTTER

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1106 PM EST FRI JUL 03 1998

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

1052 PM    1 E SILVER LAKE           IN    TORNADO
07/03/98   KOSCIUSKO                       TORNADO REPORTED ON
                                           GROUND BY SPOTTER

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

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.