Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 2002, 8:27 PM EST for Johnson County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2002, 8:27 PM EST (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 11:30 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Johnson County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 1260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 10.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KIND 090127 FFWIND INC081-090430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 825 PM EST WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JOHNSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 1130 PM EST * AT 822 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BARGERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH OF INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR WAS ESTIMATING UP TO AN INCH AN HOUR OF RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING WITH THIS AREA OF STORMS. * THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... BARGERSVILLE AT 835 PM EST TRAFALGAR AT 840 PM EST WHITELAND AT 845 PM EST FRANKLIN AT 850 PM 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 3961 8624 3934 8625 3935 8598 3962 8599 KOCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:10 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Owen, Putnam | 2 hr |
| May 8, 7:12 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Owen, Putnam | 3 hr |
| May 8, 7:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Morgan | 115 min |
| May 8, 7:52 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Morgan | 3 hr |
| May 8, 8:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Johnson | 2 hr |
| May 9, 3:39 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion, Vigo | 3 hr |
| May 9, 3:41 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion, Vigo | 4 hr |
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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.