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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 15, 2004Jennings County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2004, 6:22 PM EST for Jennings County, Indiana. It was in force for 113 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: Jun 15, 2004, 6:22 PM EST (23:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2004, 8:15 PM EST
In force: 113 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jennings County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 1183 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 837 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KIND 152324
FFWIND
INC079-160215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
622 PM EST TUE JUN 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  JENNINGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA

* UNTIL 915 PM EST

* AT 622 PM EST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED 
  WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING ACROSS JENNINGS COUNTY. THERE WERE 
  ALSO SOME RESCUES OF PEOPLE TRAPPED IN CARS.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO NORTH
  VERNON.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.

LAT...LON 3909 8578 3883 8577 3894 8547 3914 8548

$$

KOCH

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KIND 160052
FFSIND
INC079-160215-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
745 PM EST TUE JUN 15 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM EST FOR JENNINGS
COUNTY...

AT 743 PM EST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED NUMEROUS 
ROAD CLOSURES ACROSS JENNINGS COUNTY. MODERATE AND BRIEF PERIODS OF 
HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING. DOPPLER RADAR 
INDICATED 2 TO 2 AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 4 PM 
ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL JENNINGS COUNTY. 

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO 
CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER 
TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO 
ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF 
RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.


LAT...LON 3909 8578 3883 8577 3894 8547 3914 8548

$$

KOCH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 1:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	43 min
Jun 15, 1:20 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion	55 min
Jun 15, 2:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	49 min

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.