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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 1, 2002Greene County, Sullivan County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at May 1, 2002, 5:36 PM EST for Greene County, Sullivan County, Indiana. It was in force for 114 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, 5:36 PM EST (22:36 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2002, 7:30 PM EST
In force: 114 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Greene County, IN, Sullivan County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KIND 012236
FFWIND
INC055-153-020030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
535 PM EST WED MAY 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LINTON...JASONVILLE...BLOOMFIELD
  SULLIVAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SULLIVAN

* UNTIL 730 PM EST

* AT 529 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER SULLIVAN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...
  SULLIVAN AT 540 PM EST
  LINTON AT 545 PM EST
  JASONVILLE AT 555 PM EST
  BLOOMFIELD AT 605 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.

LAT...LON 3923 8757 3891 8756 3892 8756 3892 8752
          3893 8674 3916 8675 3917 8730

DRT

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	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	54 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.