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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Northern Indiana

July 6, 2003Cass County, Miami County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2003, 8:51 PM EST for Cass County, Miami 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 6, 2003, 8:51 PM EST (01:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2003, 10:45 PM EST
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cass County, IN, Miami County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 209 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2003-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3257 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2003-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
4.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KIWX 070156
FFWIWX
INC017-103-070445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
851 PM EST SUN JUL 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CASS COUNTY IN INDIANA
  MIAMI COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 1145 PM EST

* AT 851 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CASS AND MIAMI 
COUNTIES...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF 
RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED.

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

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 4087 8657 4068 8632 4062 8597 4093 8595
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS73 KIWX 070338
FFSIWX
INC017-070430-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1024 PM EST SUN JUL 6 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES...

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR

  CASS COUNTY IN INDIANA

UNTIL 1145 PM EST...

LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN LOGANSPORT REPORTED 2.18 INCHES OF 
RAINFALL IN ONE AND A HALF HOURS. FLOODING SHOULD CONTINUE DUE TO 
THE HEAVY RAINS THAT HAVE ALREADY FALLEN OVER THIS AFTERNOON AND 
EVENING. SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS AND A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL 
CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS CASS 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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 7:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSaint Joseph64 min
Jul 6, 7:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhite54 min
Jul 6, 7:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart54 min
Jul 6, 8:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaPorte, Starke43 min
Jul 6, 8:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXMarshall58 min
Jul 6, 8:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Kosciusko, Miami52 min
Jul 6, 8:42 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXWhite2 hr
Jul 6, 9:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXMiami, Wabash66 min
Jul 6, 10:00 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXAdams, Allen, Huntington, Wabash, Wells2 hr
Jul 6, 10:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBlackford, Jay60 min
Jul 7, 1:24 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXCass, Miami51 min
Jul 7, 9:23 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaPorte52 min
Jul 7, 9:58 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSaint Joseph62 min
Jul 7, 10:08 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXMarshall, Starke52 min
Jul 7, 10:17 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Pulaski58 min
Jul 7, 10:25 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart50 min
Jul 7, 10:28 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXKosciusko47 min
Jul 7, 10:50 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXCass, Miami55 min
Jul 7, 10:51 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange, Noble39 min
Jul 7, 11:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhitley45 min
Jul 7, 11:10 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDeKalb, Steuben80 min
Jul 7, 11:22 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen53 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2003Every 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.