Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 91, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 2002, 7:50 PM EST for Morgan County, Indiana. It was in force for 115 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 8, 2002, 7:50 PM EST (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 9:45 PM EST
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Morgan County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 1076 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KIND 090052 FFWIND INC109-090345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 750 PM EST WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 1045 PM EST * AT 746 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE HART...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTH OF BLOOMINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN AN HOUR HAS FALLEN WITH THIS AREA OF STORMS. * THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... LAKE HART AT 820 PM EST MOORESVILLE AT 830 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 3956 8666 3939 8663 3947 8628 3963 8634 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, 7:52 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Morgan | 3 hr |
| May 8, 8:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Johnson | 2 hr |
| May 8, 8:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Johnson | 3 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 |
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.