Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003

Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 8, 2003Carroll County, Howard County, Tipton County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2003, 5:45 PM EST for Carroll County, Howard County, Tipton County, Indiana. It was in force for 5 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 8, 2003, 5:45 PM EST (22:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2003, 11:00 PM EST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Carroll County, IN, Howard County, IN, Tipton County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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.

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: 1887 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1341 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KIND 082245
FFWIND
INC015-067-159-090500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
545 PM EST TUE JUL 8 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
  TIPTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST

* AT 540 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 
  RAIN FROM NEAR KOKOMO TO NEAR TIPTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

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 4075 8675 4060 8677 4045 8668 4041 8624
          4025 8623 4026 8589 4059 8588

$$
DRT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 11:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	44 min
Jul 7, 11:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Tippecanoe	46 min
Jul 7, 11:45 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Howard, Tippecanoe	2 hr
Jul 8, 12:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Montgomery	45 min
Jul 8, 12:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Howard, Tipton	51 min
Jul 8, 12:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	41 min
Jul 8, 12:40 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Madison	50 min
Jul 8, 1:03 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Madison	23 hr
Jul 8, 1:03 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Madison	57 min
Jul 8, 1:14 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hamilton	61 min
Jul 8, 1:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Randolph	45 min
Jul 8, 1:49 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Randolph	56 min
Jul 8, 2:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew	44 min
Jul 8, 5:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Putnam	33 min
Jul 8, 5:51 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Putnam	24 min
Jul 8, 6:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain	39 min
Jul 8, 6:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton	38 min
Jul 8, 6:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Madison	46 min
Jul 8, 6:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery	37 min
Jul 8, 6:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	26 min
Jul 8, 6:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	51 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.