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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Northern Indiana

July 22, 2004Van Wert County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2004, 8:08 PM EDT for Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 2004, 8:08 PM EDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2004, 11:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Van Wert County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 22, 8:35 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	Van Wert, OH	WESTWOOD DRIVE FLOODED IN THE CITY OF VAN WERT. WATER IS 2 FEET DEEP. SEVERAL ROADS FLOODED IN VAN WERT.
Jul 22, 8:40 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	Van Wert, OH	3 FEET OF WATER OVER WESTWOOD DRIVE. TRUCK STRANDED IN FLOOD WATERS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 1786 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 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 KIWX 230011
FFWIWX
OHC161-230315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
808 PM EDT THU JUL 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  VAN WERT COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 1115 PM EDT

* AT 808 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER VAN WERT...MOVING EAST     
  AT 30 MPH. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXTENDED WEST INTO ADAMS COUNTY OF  
  INDIANA. RADAR INDICATES BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 
  THIS AFTERNOON. AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAINFALL IS  
  STILL POSSIBLE.   


EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTS SOME MINOR FLOODING ALREADY OCCURRING 
IN THE CITY OF VAN WERT. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 
THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. DO NOT DRIVE...WALK OR PLAY IN FLOODED 
AREAS. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF MOVING WATER TO LIFT A VEHICLE 
OR KNOCK A PERSON DOWN. TURN AROUND...DO NOT DROWN.

REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY 
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 4098 8478 4074 8480 4074 8441 4097 8440

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KIWX 230106
FFSIWX
OHC161-230315-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
901 PM EDT THU JUL 22 2004

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES...

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR

  VAN WERT COUNTY IN OHIO

UNTIL 1115 PM EDT...

RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS VAN WERT COUNTY. HOWEVER...RUNOFF FROM 2 TO 4 
INCHES OF RAINFALL THIS EVENING HAS LED TO FLOODING ACROSS PORTIONS 
OF VAN WERT COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF VAN WERT. FLOODING WILL 
STILL BE POSSIBLE INTO THE LATE EVENING HOURS. 

VAN WERT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A COUPLE OF ROADS CLOSED IN 
THE CITY OF VAN WERT...SOME WITH AS MUCH AS 3 FEET OF STANDING 
WATER. A TRUCK WAS ALSO REPORTED STRANDED IN HIGH WATER. FLOODED 
ROADS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1115 PM EDT BEFORE FLOOD WATERS 
RECEDE. SMALL STREAMS...CREEKS...DITCHES AND CULVERTS WILL ALSO BE 
FULL OF RUNNING WATER.   

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. TURN 
AROUND...DO NOT DROWN.

TO REPORT FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR
REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN 
INDIANA OR THE VAN WERT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE.

$$

000 
WGUS73 KIWX 230253
FFSIWX
OHC161-230315-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1052 PM EDT THU JUL 22 2004

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR

  VAN WERT COUNTY IN OHIO

IT HAS BEEN SEVERAL HOURS SINCE RAINFALL ENDED ACROSS VAN WERT 
COUNTY AND FLOOD WATERS HAVE RECEDED. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY 
CONTINUE...HOWEVER THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED.

$$

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.