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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 6, 20025 counties in Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 2002, 11:34 AM EST for 5 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 4 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 6, 2002, 11:34 AM EST (16:34 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2002, 3:30 PM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Daviess County, IN, Greene County, IN, Knox County, IN, Martin County, IN, Sullivan County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 454 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 061634
FFWIND
INC027-055-083-101-153-062030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1132 AM EST MON MAY 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DAVIESS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
  GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
  KNOX COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF VINCENNES
  MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
  SULLIVAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 330 PM EST

* AT 1130 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN FROM 30 MILES WEST OF SHELBURN TO 21 MILES WEST OF
  RUSSELLVILLE...OR FROM 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHARLESTON TO 10 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF OLNEY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...
  VINCENNES AT 1225 PM EST
  OAKTOWN AT 1235 PM EST
  SULLIVAN AT 1240 PM EST
  SHELBURN AT 1245 PM EST

THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS...ROADS AND
UNDERPASSES. FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND OTHER LOW LYING
AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING ALSO.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. TO ESCAPE
RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 11:32 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin, Sullivan	3 hr

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.