Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2004, 11:05 PM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 115 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, 11:05 PM EST (04:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2004, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Allen County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:09 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 225 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 478 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KIWX 290406 FFWIWX INC003-290700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1105 PM EST SAT AUG 28 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ALLEN COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 200 AM EST * AT 1105 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL ALSO BE MOVING INTO THE AREA AND PRODUCE RAINFALL OF OVER AN INCH PER HOUR. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... FORT WAYNE HUNTERTOWN NEW HAVEN MONROEVILLE GRABILL WOODBURN 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 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA. LAT...LON 4125 8532 4095 8531 4096 8483 4127 8485 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KIWX 290535 FFSIWX INC003-290545- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1235 AM EST SUN AUG 29 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALLEN COUNTY IN INDIANA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...HOWEVER THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED. TO REPORT FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:29 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | White | 61 min |
| Aug 28, 9:05 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 55 min |
| Aug 28, 10:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | White | 65 min |
| Aug 28, 10:57 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 63 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2004Every 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.