Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2003, 4:59 PM EST for Starke County, Indiana. It was in force for 61 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 6, 2003, 4:59 PM EST (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2003, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Starke County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 199 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1041 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1114 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KIWX 062205
FFWIWX
INC149-070000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
459 PM EST SUN JUL 6 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
STARKE COUNTY IN INDIANA
* UNTIL 700 PM EST
* AT 459 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY OVER NORTH JUDSON... MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. RADAR INDICATES OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF STARKE COUNTY BETWEEN 400 AND 500 PM.
THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST ILLINOIS WILL MOVE OVER STARKE COUNTY
LATER THIS EVENING.
IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. AVOID DRIVING
THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROADWAYS.
REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR
REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN
INDIANA.
LAT...LON 4128 8685 4132 8675 4142 8650 4118 8647
4117 8688 4122 8698The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 66 min |
| Jul 6, 2:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | White | 118 min |
| Jul 6, 2:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Starke | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, White | 54 min |
| Jul 6, 3:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 51 min |
| Jul 6, 4:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 63 min |
| Jul 6, 4:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 4:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 5:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Huntington | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | White | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 6:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 46 min |
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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.