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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 9, 2001Sullivan County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2001, 2:47 AM EST for Sullivan County, Indiana. It was in force for 118 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
Jul 9, 2001, 2:47 AM EST (07:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2001, 4:45 AM EST
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Sullivan County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2001-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 623 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2001-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KIND 090749
FFWIND
INC153-091045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
247 AM EST MON JUL 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SULLIVAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 545 AM EST

* AT 242 AM CDT...ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING OUT OF 
  ILLINOIS AND INTO SULLIVAN COUNTY. SOME FLOODING HAS ALREADY
  OCCURRED IN SULLIVAN COUNTY DUE TO HEAVY RAIN IN THE LATE
  EVENING.

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 3924 8760 3891 8754 3889 8727 3926 8727
DS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 7:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJackson40 min
Jul 8, 11:38 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDClay, Sullivan, Vigo2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2001Every 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.