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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 12, 20026 counties in Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 2002, 8:08 PM EST for 6 counties in 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 12, 2002, 8:08 PM EST (01:08 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2002, 11:00 PM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clay County, IN, Greene County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Owen County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Vigo County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KIND 130108
FFWIND
INC021-055-105-119-153-167-130400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
805 PM EST SUN MAY 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON
  GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
  SULLIVAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
  CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  OWEN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  VIGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 1100 PM EST

* AT 802 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO
  HEAVY RAIN FROM CENTRAL ILLINOIS THROUGH THE WARNING AREA. THE    
  RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING. LAW ENFORCEMENT WERE 
  CONTINUING TO REPORT HIGH WATER ACROSS NUMEROUS ROADS ACROSS THESE
  COUNTIES. 

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.

$$
KOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 7:05 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Delaware, Hamilton, Madison, Randolph	115 min
May 12, 7:05 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Delaware, Hamilton, Madison, Randolph	3 hr
May 12, 7:27 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Daviess, Jackson, Jennings, Knox and 2 more	2 hr
May 12, 7:28 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Daviess, Jackson, Jennings, Knox and 2 more	3 hr
May 12, 8:05 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Clay, Greene, Monroe, Owen, Sullivan, Vigo	115 min
May 12, 8:32 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Decatur	58 min
May 12, 8:34 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Decatur	116 min
May 12, 10:36 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Decatur, Greene and 12 more	3 hr
May 12, 10:38 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Decatur, Greene and 12 more	4 hr
May 13, 2:27 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Decatur, Greene and 11 more	6 hr
May 13, 2:30 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Decatur, Greene and 11 more	5 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.