Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at May 1, 2002, 6:21 PM EST for Lawrence County, Indiana. It was in force for 54 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
- May 1, 2002, 6:21 PM EST (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2002, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lawrence County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KIND 012321 FFWIND INC093-020115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 621 PM EST WED MAY 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BEDFORD * UNTIL 815 PM EST * AT 621 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 7 MILES WEST OF OOLITIC...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF BEDFORD... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... BEDFORD AT 625 PM EST MITCHELL AT 630 PM EST THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS...ROADS AND CULVERTS. 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 3898 8670 3869 8670 3870 8633 3899 8631 DRT/JEZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 3:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Knox | 28 min |
| May 1, 3:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 28 min |
| May 1, 5:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Sullivan | 24 min |
| May 1, 5:35 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Greene, Sullivan | 55 min |
| May 1, 5:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Greene, Sullivan | 114 min |
| May 1, 5:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene | 24 min |
| May 1, 5:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox, Martin | 24 min |
| May 1, 5:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Lawrence | 33 min |
| May 1, 6:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Martin | 17 min |
| May 1, 6:21 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Lawrence | 114 min |
| May 1, 6:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Lawrence | 35 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.