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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 7, 2003Delaware County, Randolph County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2003, 2:49 AM EST for Delaware County, Randolph County, Indiana. It was in force for 56 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: Jul 7, 2003, 2:49 AM EST (07:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2003, 3:45 AM EST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Delaware County, IN, Randolph County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 1162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KIND 070749
FFWIND
INC035-135-070945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
249 AM EST MON JUL 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DELAWARE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MUNCIE
  RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 445 AM EST

* AT 247 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER GASTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF MUNCIE...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...
  YORKTOWN AT 255 AM EST
  MUNCIE AT 300 AM EST
  SELMA AT 305 AM EST
  PARKER CITY AT 310 AM 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 4038 8557 4016 8556 4003 8485 4028 8483

$$

KOCH

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KIND 070838
FFSIND
INC035-135-070945-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
338 AM EST MON JUL 7 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES CONTINUES
THROUGH 445 AM...

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS RANDOLPH AND
SOUTHERN DELAWARE COUNTIES THROUGH 400 AM. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT
OVER 1 INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN DELAWARE COUNTY AND
MUCH OF RANDOLPH COUNTY BETWEEN 230 AM AND 330 AM.

MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.  DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY OR PAST POLICE BARRICADES.

$$

000 
WGUS73 KIND 070948
FFSIND
INC035-135-071005-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
445 AM EST MON JUL 7 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES CONTINUES
HAS EXPIRED..

RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES. LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT REPORTED NO FLOODING PROBLEMS AS OF 445 AM. THUS THE
WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 7:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	33 min
Jul 6, 7:47 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	118 min
Jul 6, 8:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Warren	25 min
Jul 6, 8:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Warren	39 min
Jul 6, 8:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	31 min
Jul 6, 9:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Warren	46 min
Jul 6, 10:05 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Howard, Montgomery, Tipton	3 hr
Jul 6, 10:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	45 min
Jul 6, 10:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery	37 min
Jul 6, 10:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	66 min
Jul 6, 10:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Hamilton, Madison, Randolph, Tipton	62 min
Jul 6, 11:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	65 min
Jul 6, 11:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	33 min
Jul 6, 11:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Henry	62 min
Jul 7, 12:15 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hamilton	60 min
Jul 7, 12:55 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Delaware, Henry, Madison	65 min
Jul 7, 12:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry	43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.