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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 6, 2001Hendricks County, Marion County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2001, 5:33 AM EST for Hendricks County, Marion County, Indiana. It was in force for 117 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, 5:33 AM EST (10:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2001, 7:30 AM EST
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Hendricks County, IN, Marion County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:34 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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 061038
FFWIND
INC063-097-061330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HENDRICKS COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  SOUTHERN MARION COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS

* UNTIL 830 AM EST

* AT 528 AM EST...AN AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL WAS MOVING EAST 
  INTO PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN HENDRICKS COUNTY.

RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER
PARTS OF SOUTHERN HENDRICKS COUNTY AND SOUTHERN MARION COUNTY. THIS
AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL PRODUCE UP TO AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN 
IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

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 3979 8669 3962 8666 3965 8597 3984 8596
$$
JAS

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, 4:53 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Parke, Putnam, Vermillion	112 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.