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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Indianapolis, IN

August 28, 20044 counties in Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2004, 3:04 PM EST for 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 116 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: Aug 28, 2004, 3:04 PM EST (20:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 2004, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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, 8.1 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-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: 1072 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -68 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 KIND 282008
FFWIND
INC071-079-093-101-282300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
304 PM EST SAT AUG 28 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SEYMOUR
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BEDFORD
  JENNINGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA
  MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 600 PM EST

* AT 257 PM EST...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED FROM    
  NEAR SHOALS TO TO NEAR SEYMOUR. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 25     
  MPH. 

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  VERNON...OOLITIC...NORTH VERNON...MITCHELL...MEDORA...LOOGOOTEE...
  CROTHERSVILLE AND BROWNSTOWN.

RADAR INDICATES UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER PARTS 
OF MARTIN COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON.

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE
YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME
KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR
CREEKS.

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 3885 8692 3852 8693 3879 8505 3930 8508
      3906 8581

$$

DS

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KIND 282257
FFSIND
INC071-079-093-101-282300-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
550 PM EST SAT AUG 28 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MARTIN...LAWRENCE...JACKSON AND 
JENNINGS COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 600 PM EST...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY ACROSS THE AREA. FLOODING 
WAS REPORTED EARLIER IN NORTH VERNON AND BROWNSTOWN BUT HAS SINCE 
RECEDED. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER THIS 
EVENING. THIS COULD ONCE AGAIN CAUSE FLOODING PROBLEMS. STAY TUNED 
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATION OR RADIO 
STATION FOR THE POSSIBLY OF ADDITIONAL WARNINGS.

LAT...LON 3885 8692 3852 8693 3879 8505 3930 8508
      3906 8581

$$

JB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 28, 3:59 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Decatur	2 hr

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.