Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2001, 11:38 PM EST for Clay County, Sullivan County, Vigo County, 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2001, 11:38 PM EST (04:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2001, 1:45 AM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clay County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Vigo County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:39 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 623 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KIND 090440 FFWIND INC021-153-167-090745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1138 PM EST SUN JUL 8 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SULLIVAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA SOUTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA SOUTHERN VIGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 245 AM EST * AT 1134 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN PARTS OF VIGO AND CLAY COUNTIES AND THE NORTHERN PART OF SULLIVAN COUNTIES. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS VERY SLOW MOVING AND DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING GREATER THAN 2 INCHES OF RAIN AN HOUR ACROSS PARTS OF THESE COUNTIES. * THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... CLAY CITY AT MIDNIGHT EST BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO SEE FLOOD WATERS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. 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 3933 8753 3920 8757 3917 8709 3931 8707 KOCH
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS53 KIND 090535 INC021-153-167-090745- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1235 AM EST MON JUL 9 2001 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN SULLIVAN COUNTY SOUTHERN CLAY COUNTY AND SOUTHERN VIGO COUNTY UNTIL 245 AM EST... AT 1230 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE FROM SULLIVAN THROUGH LINTON AND BLOOMFIELD TO JUST NORTHWEST OF BEDFORD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST TOWARD VINCENNES...WASHINGTON...SHOALS AND BEDFORD. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO SEE FLOOD WATERS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson | 40 min |
| Jul 9, 2:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Sullivan | 118 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.