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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Indianapolis, IN

October 18, 2004Greene County, Sullivan County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Oct 18, 2004, 7:08 PM EST for Greene County, Sullivan County, Indiana. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 18, 2004, 7:08 PM EST (00:08 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 2004, 9:15 PM EST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Greene County, IN, Sullivan County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 348 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 190011
FFWIND
INC055-153-190315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
708 PM EST MON OCT 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
  SULLIVAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 1015 PM EST

* AT 705 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN WESTERN GREENE COUNTY AND
  PARTS OF SOUTHERN SULLIVAN COUNTY SINCE 400 PM EST. ANOTHER INCH
  OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BETWEEN 700 PM AND 900 PM EST.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  DUGGER...LINTON...LYONS...SWITZ CITY...WORTHINGTON AND BLOOMFIELD.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

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 3916 8751 3894 8752 3896 8674 3914 8676

$$

JEH

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KIND 190155
FFSIND
INC055-153-190315-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
848 PM EST MON OCT 18 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1015 PM EST FOR GREENE AND
SULLIVAN COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...

SULLICAN COUNTY SHERRIFF AND ALSO LINTON POLICE IN WESTERN GREENE 
COUNTY REPORTED WATER FLOWING ONTO SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS.  HOWEVER NO
SERIOUS FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED SO FAR.

RADAR INDICATES OVER TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL HAVE OCCURRED SINCE 500 
PM EST IN SOUTHERN SULLIVAN AND WESTERN GREENE COUNTY. UP TO ANOTHER 
INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN GREENE COUNTY.

PERSONS IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD TAKE COVER 
IMMEDIATELY.

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.

LAT...LON 3916 8751 3894 8752 3896 8674 3914 8676

$$

JEH

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.