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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Indianapolis, IN

September 26, 2003Fountain County, Tippecanoe County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2003, 7:23 PM EST for Fountain County, Tippecanoe 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 26, 2003, 7:23 PM EST (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Sep 26, 2003, 9:30 PM EST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fountain County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 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 270026
FFWIND
INC045-157-270330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
723 PM EST FRI SEP 26 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN FOUNTAIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  TIPPECANOE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE

* UNTIL 1030 PM EST

* AT 720 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL
  AMOUNTS OF UP TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES HAVE FALLEN SINCE 600 PM
  EST IN NORTHERN FOUNTAIN AND SOUTHERN TIPPECANOE COUNTIES.

LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS ALSO REPORTED WATER WAS STARTTING TO FLOW 
OVER THE ROADWAYS IN SOUTHERN TIPPECANOE COUNTIES.

DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOWING WATER. IF IT IS TWO FEET DEEP...IT CAN
CARRY MOST VEHICLES AWAY. VEHICLES WITH LARGER TIRES...SUCH AS
SUVS...ARE MORE BUOYANT AND AT GREATER RISK.

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 4018 8738 4008 8723 4023 8710 4023 8675
          4055 8684

$$

JEH

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KIND 270239
FFSIND
INC045-157-270330-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
939 PM EST FRI SEP 26 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE FOR TIPPECANOE AND NORTHERN
FOUNTAIN COUNTIES UNTIL 1030 PM EST...

RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE AS MUCH AS 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
FALLEN IN FOUNTAIN AND SOUTHERN TIPPECANOE COUNTIES BETWEEN 500 PM
EST AND 830 PM EST. SINCE THEN RAINFALL HAS STARTED TO DIMINISH
ACROSS THOSE COUNTIES.

SO FAR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN FOUNTAIN COUNTY.
HOWEVER THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF MINOR FLOODING IN PART
OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY.

PERSONS SHOULD AVOID DRIVING IN FLOOD WATERS.  BE ESPECIALLY
CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT AS IT IS HARD TO SEE HOW HIGH WATER LEVELS ARE.

REPORT SERIOUS FLOODING TO THE STATE POLICE FOR RELAY TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

$$

JEH

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.