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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Northern Indiana

July 5, 2003Pulaski County, White County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2003, 4:51 AM EST for Pulaski County, White County, Indiana. It was in force for 114 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 5, 2003, 4:51 AM EST (09:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2003, 6:45 AM EST
In force: 114 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Pulaski County, IN, White County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:50 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 2705 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KIWX 050953
FFWIWX
INC131-181-051245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
451 AM EST SAT JUL 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PULASKI COUNTY IN INDIANA
  WHITE COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 745 AM EST

* AT 451 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN WHITE AND EASTERN 
PULASKI COUNTIES MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. RAINFALL OVER PORTIONS OF 
WHITE COUNTY HAS BEEN OVER 6 INCHES THE LAST 6 HOURS WITH OVER 2 
INCHES IN EASTERN PULASKI COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES OF 
RAIN IS POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT 3 HOURS OVER NORTHERN WHITE AND MUCH OF 
PULASKI COUNTY.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
NORTHERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 4089 8697 4118 8694 4118 8647 4097 8647
          4091 8658 4074 8658 4073 8677 4057 8677
          4057 8711 4084 8712

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KIWX 051144
FFSIWX
INC131-181-051230-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
637 AM EST SAT JUL 5 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES...

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR

  PULASKI COUNTY IN INDIANA
  WHITE COUNTY IN INDIANA

UNTIL 745 AM EST...

RADAR DATA HAS INDICATED 4 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVERNIGHT 
IN PORTIONS OF PULASKI COUNTY AND 6 TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN OVERNIGHT IN 
PORTIONS OF WHITE COUNTY. HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS BEEN SOUTHWEST OF A 
MEDARYVILLE TO THORNHOPE LINE IN PULASKI COUNTY AND IN THE MAJORITY 
OF WHITE COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE PERIODS OF 
HEAVY RAIN IN THESE COUNTIES THROUGH 745 AM EST.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.

TO REPORT FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR
REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN
INDIANA.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 8:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	52 min
Jul 4, 8:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington	48 min
Jul 4, 8:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash	41 min
Jul 4, 8:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	DeKalb	37 min
Jul 4, 9:57 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Huntington, Wells	63 min
Jul 4, 10:26 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Miami, Wabash	34 min
Jul 4, 11:48 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Cass	57 min
Jul 5, 12:03 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Huntington, Jay, Wells	117 min
Jul 5, 12:23 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Miami, Wabash	2 hr
Jul 5, 1:50 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, White	115 min
Jul 5, 3:24 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Miami	21 min
Jul 5, 6:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte	65 min
Jul 5, 6:29 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Cass	2 hr
Jul 5, 7:03 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	42 min
Jul 5, 7:08 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Miami	2 hr
Jul 5, 8:03 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Wabash and 1 more	117 min
Jul 5, 9:42 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami	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.