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Flash Flood Warning 106, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 25, 2002Tippecanoe County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2002, 6:58 PM EST for Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2002, 6:58 PM EST (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2002, 8:00 PM EST
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tippecanoe County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 998 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 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 
WGUS53 KIND 260000
FFWIND
INC157-260200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
658 PM EST TUE JUN 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  TIPPECANOE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE

* UNTIL 900 PM EST

* AT 653 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SHADELAND...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF LAFAYETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...
  SHADELAND AT 715 PM EST
  OTTERBEIN AT 725 PM EST
  LAFAYETTE AT 750 PM EST
  DAYTON AT 800 PM EST

COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGMENT REPORTS FLOODING IN THE WEST POINT AREA. 
DOPPLER ESTIMATES THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE WEST 
POINT AREA. 

THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS...ROADS AND
FARMLAND NEXT TO CREEKS.

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 4028 8707 4028 8676 4055 8669 4057 8712

PUMA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 11:11 AM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Marion	19 min
Jun 25, 12:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Marion	22 min
Jun 25, 12:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson	31 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.