Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Apr 12, 2002, 4:38 PM EST for Fountain County, Vermillion County, Warren 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 2002, 4:38 PM EST (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2002, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fountain County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Warren County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KIND 122138 FFWIND INC045-165-171-122330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 431 PM EST FRI APR 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FOUNTAIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA VERMILLION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA WARREN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 630 PM EST * AT 421 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEWTON TO COVINGTON TO PERRYSVILLE. RADAR WAS ESTIMATING 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THIS AREA DURING THE PAST HOUR AND A HALF AND ANOTHER INCH OR TWO IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 600 PM EST. 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. KOCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 3:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vermillion, Warren | 40 min |
| Apr 12, 3:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Owen | 43 min |
| Apr 12, 4:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Fountain, Vermillion, Warren | 59 min |
| Apr 12, 4:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe, Morgan | 32 min |
| Apr 12, 4:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton, Tippecanoe | 39 min |
| Apr 12, 5:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown | 29 min |
| Apr 12, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson | 43 min |
| Apr 12, 5:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Greene, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan and 2 more | 67 min |
| Apr 12, 5:41 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Greene, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 12, 5:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Shelby | 30 min |
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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.