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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 6, 2001Parke County, Putnam County, Vermillion County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2001, 4:53 AM EST for Parke County, Putnam County, Vermillion County, Indiana. It was in force for 112 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2001, 4:53 AM EST (09:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2001, 6:45 AM EST
In force: 112 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Vermillion County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:53 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 771 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 539 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KIND 060950
FFWIND
INC121-133-165-061245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
453 AM EST WED JUN 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PARKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  NORTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  SOUTHERN VERMILLION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 745 AM EST

* AT 441 AM EST...HEAVY RAINFALL WAS FROM JUST NORTH OF CLINTON TO   
  JUST NORTH OF GREENCASTLE. 

RADAR ESTIMATED ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL SINCE MIDNIGHT. HEAVY 
RAIN EXTENDED WEST INTO ILLINOIS. ANOTHER INCH OF RAIN MAY FALL 
EARLY THIS MORNING.

THE PUTNAM COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED WATER OVER U.S. 231...5 MILES 
NORTH OF GREENCASTLE. 

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.

LAT...LON 3995 8753 3965 8753 3957 8671 3983 8674

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Jackson	44 min
Jun 6, 5:33 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hendricks, Marion	117 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.