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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 4, 20035 counties in Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2003, 11:59 PM EST for 5 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 2003, 11:59 PM EST (04:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2003, 2:00 AM EST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Delaware County, IN, Howard County, IN, Madison County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Tipton County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:03 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 1527 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1393 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KIND 050503
FFWIND
INC035-067-095-135-159-050800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1159 PM EST FRI JUL 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HOWARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF KOKOMO
  MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ANDERSON
  TIPTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  DELAWARE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MUNCIE
  RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 300 AM EST

* AT 1158 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  THUNDERSTORMS FROM KOKOMO TO MUNCIE TO FARMLAND. HEAVY STORMS WILL
  CONTINUE TO MARCH ACROSS THIS AREA THROUGH EARLY MORNING. LAW 
  ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN KOKOMO. 

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 4057 8635 4045 8635 4044 8623 4025 8623
          4028 8585 3996 8583 3998 8562 4011 8558
          4004 8483 4028 8483 4038 8588 4055 8590

$$

KOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 9:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	45 min
Jul 5, 1:43 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll	17 min
Jul 5, 3:00 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Delaware, Howard, Madison, Randolph and 1 more	3 hr
Jul 5, 8:14 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Howard, Tippecanoe, Tipton	3 hr
Jul 5, 3:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe	29 min
Jul 5, 3:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe	37 min
Jul 5, 4:24 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone, Montgomery	36 min
Jul 5, 4:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone	37 min
Jul 5, 5:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Hendricks, Marion	41 min
Jul 5, 5:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Johnson, Madison, Shelby	35 min
Jul 5, 6:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Rush	24 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.