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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS SDF

January 3, 20005 counties in Indiana

NWS SDF issued this flash flood warning at Jan 3, 2000, 5:58 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, 5:58 PM EST (22:58 UTC)
Expired
Jan 3, 2000, 8:00 PM EST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS SDF
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-01-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-213 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 KSDF 032301
FFWSDF
INC019-043-077-143-175-040100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  FLOYD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 800 PM EST

* AT 555 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
  MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF RAIN CONTINUE TO FALL ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL
  INDIANA. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE LIKELY
  OVER THE WARNED AREA INTO THE EARLY EVENING. THIS NEW RAINFALL
  ON TOP OF THE HEAVY RAINS OF LAST NIGHT...WILL HELP PROMOTE
  FLASH FLOODING.

DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATE:R COVERS THE ROAD!

.END/STUREY/FUNK


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STUREY/FUNK

The office that day

Everything else NWS SDF issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 4:58 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningSDFCrawford, Dubois, Harrison, Orange, Perry2 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.