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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Indianapolis, IN

September 24, 2003Warren County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 24, 2003, 6:26 AM EST for Warren County, 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: Sep 24, 2003, 6:26 AM EST (11:26 UTC)
Expired: Sep 24, 2003, 8:30 AM EST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Warren County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:25 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2089 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 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 241129
FFWIND
INC171-241430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
626 AM EST WED SEP 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WARREN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 930 AM EST

* AT 625 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER WARREN COUNTY. MORE STORMS 
  EXTENDED WEST INTO ILLINOIS.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 3 
INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS WARREN COUNTY OVER THE PAST 3 
HOURS. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS THE 
COUNTY THROUGH AT LEAST 730 AM EST.

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 4032 8754 4015 8746 4031 8729 4038 8711
          4048 8711 4049 8753

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KIND 241354
FFSIND
INC045-171-241409-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
854 AM EST WED SEP 24 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WARREN AND FOUNTAIN COUNTIES HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF WARREN AND FOUNTAIN COUNTIES. SOME
LOW SPOTS IN ROADS MAY CONTINUE TO HAVE SOME PONDING OF WATER UNTIL
LATE MORNING. CONTINUE TO USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING THIS MORNING.

$$

HAINES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 24, 7:13 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Tippecanoe	2 hr

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.