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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana

September 11, 2000Kosciusko County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2000, 4:52 PM EST for Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 118 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 11, 2000, 4:52 PM EST (21:52 UTC)
Expired
Sep 11, 2000, 6:50 PM EST
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Kosciusko County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 259 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2000-09-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 635 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2000-09-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
635 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 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 KIWX 112156
FFWIWX
INC085-120050-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
452 PM EST MON SEP 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 750 PM EST

* AT 452 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER NORTHERN
KOSCIUSKO COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH BEND TO KNOX WERE
MOVING TOWARD THE AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN ACROSS NORTHERN PARTS OF KOSCIUSKO COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO
2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BY 700 PM EST. r

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 11, 2:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange31 min
Sep 11, 3:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSteuben64 min
Sep 11, 3:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXKosciusko, Noble48 min
Sep 11, 5:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXKosciusko, Marshall63 min
Sep 11, 5:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington, Wabash, Whitley49 min
Sep 11, 6:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen50 min
Sep 11, 6:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington, Wabash52 min
Sep 11, 6:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams, Wells60 min
Sep 11, 6:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBlackford, Grant60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.