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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Northern Indiana

July 5, 2003Cass County, White County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2003, 1:50 AM EST for Cass County, White County, Indiana. It was in force for 115 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, 1:50 AM EST (06:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2003, 3:45 AM EST
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cass County, IN, White County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:52 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KIWX 050654
FFWIWX
INC017-181-050945-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 AM EST

* AT 150 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED FROM LOGANSPORT       
  THROUGH MONTICELLO AND THEN WEST INTO NORTHEAST ILLINOIS. THE      
  STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST CAUSING ADDITIONAL HEAVY         
  RAINFALL. RADAR ESTIMATES OVER SIX INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN    
  PORTIONS OF THIS AREA. 

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 8706 4059 8710 4059 8618 4090 8618

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KIWX 050846
FFSIWX
INC017-181-050945-

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

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES...

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR

  CASS COUNTY IN INDIANA
  WHITE COUNTY IN INDIANA

UNTIL 445 AM EST...

SPOTTERS AND RADAR DATA INDICATED 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN 
OVERNIGHT IN PORTIONS OF CASS AND WHITE COUNTIES.  HEAVIEST RAINFALL 
HAS BEEN IN THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THESE COUNTIES INCLUDING THE 
ROCK CREEK AREA NEAR WALTON IN CASS COUNTY AND BIG CREEK AREA NEAR 
CHALMERS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY 
RAIN IN THIS AREA THROUGH 445 AM EST. 

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.

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, 3:24 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Miami	21 min
Jul 5, 4:51 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Pulaski, White	114 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

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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.