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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 16, 2003Jackson County, Jennings County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2003, 1:22 AM EST for Jackson County, Jennings County, Indiana. It was in force for 113 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: Jun 16, 2003, 1:22 AM EST (06:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2003, 3:15 AM EST
In force: 113 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:22 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 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 160628
FFWIND
INC071-079-160915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
122 AM EST MON JUN 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SEYMOUR
  JENNINGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA

* UNTIL 415 AM EST

* AT 118 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  THUNDERSTORMS DRIFTING SLOWLY WEST OVER JACKSON AND JENNINGS
  COUNTIES.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE   
  ACROSS ALREADY SATURATED GROUND.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL IN EXCESS 
OF 2 INCHES IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN JENNINGS COUNTY. LAW 
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED TORRENTIAL RAINFALL NEAR NORTH 
VERNON. 

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 3899 8622 3880 8625 3883 8585 3894 8548
          3912 8556 3904 8586

$$

BIELINSKI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 4:27 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Jackson	108 min
Jun 16, 7:42 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Decatur	2 hr

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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.