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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS SDF

January 3, 20005 counties in Indiana

NWS SDF issued this flash flood warning at Jan 3, 2000, 4:58 PM EST for 5 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 2 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
Jan 3, 2000, 4:58 PM EST (21:58 UTC)
Expired
Jan 3, 2000, 7:00 PM EST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS SDF
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2000-01-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 105 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2000-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 032201
FFWSDF
INC025-037-061-117-123-040000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
458 PM EST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  DUBOIS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 700 PM EST

* AT 500 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER A LARGE AREA OF SOUTH
  CENTRAL INDIANA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* HEAVY RAIN OF 2 TO 4 INCHES THE LAST 24 HOURS HAS BROUGHT CREEKS
  AND STREAMS NEAR BANKFULL...OR OUT OF THEIR BANKS. NEW RAINFALL
  OF ONE TO TWO INCHES THROUGH 7 PM...MAY LEAD TO ADDITIONAL FLASH
  FLOODING PROBLEMS.

DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!

.END/STUREY/FUNK

The office that day

Everything else NWS SDF issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 5:58 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningSDFClark, Floyd, Jefferson, Scott, Washington2 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.