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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Indianapolis, IN

October 5, 20006 counties in Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 2000, 6:40 AM EST for 6 counties in 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
Oct 5, 2000, 6:40 AM EST (11:40 UTC)
Expired
Oct 5, 2000, 9:45 AM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clay County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Vigo County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:42 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 2000-10-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2000-10-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
188 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 
WGUS53 KIND 051141
FFWIND
INC021-063-109-119-133-167-051545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
640 AM EST THU OCT 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HENDRICKS COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  OWEN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  VIGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TERRE HAUTE

* UNTIL 1045 AM EST

* AT 637 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER CLAYTON...OR ABOUT 22 MILES WEST OF INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...
  LIZTON AT 645 AM EST
  BROWNSBURG AT 650 AM EST

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE THREATENED BY RISING FLOOD WATERS...MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR
WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.

TO REPORT FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR
REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
INDIANAPOLIS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 5, 5:24 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDGreene, Sullivan3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.