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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 9, 2004Morgan County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2004, 5:24 PM EST for Morgan County, Indiana. It was in force for 66 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 9, 2004, 5:24 PM EST (22:24 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2004, 6:30 PM EST
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Morgan County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 2498 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 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 KIND 092225
FFWIND
INC109-100030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
524 PM EST FRI JUL 9 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 730 PM EST

* AT 518 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR BETHANY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF OVER 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

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

LAT...LON 3962 8666 3937 8665 3938 8634 3962 8636

$$
HAINES

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KIND 100026
FFSIND
INC109-100030-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
725 PM EST FRI JUL 9 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MORGAN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORMS CAUSNG THE FLASH FLOODING HAVE EITHER DIED OUT OR 
MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3962 8666 3937 8665 3938 8634 3962 8636

$$

HAINES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 4:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	30 min
Jul 9, 4:22 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hendricks	23 hr
Jul 9, 4:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson	29 min
Jul 9, 4:41 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hendricks	64 min
Jul 9, 4:44 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Johnson, Marion	61 min
Jul 9, 5:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Putnam	27 min
Jul 9, 6:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Warren	34 min
Jul 9, 6:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton	30 min
Jul 9, 6:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Howard	37 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.