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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Indianapolis, IN

January 9, 2005Knox County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 9, 2005, 1:49 PM EST for Knox County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 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
Jan 9, 2005, 1:49 PM EST (18:49 UTC)
Expired
Jan 9, 2005, 4:45 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Knox County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2005-01-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2005-01-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 121 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
866 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
394 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 091849
FFWIND
INC083-092145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
149 PM EST SUN JAN 9 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR A LEVEE FAILURE IN...
  NORTHEASTERN KNOX COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 445 PM EST

* AT 1244 PM EST...A LEVEE ON THE WHITE RIVER AT WESTPHALIA FAILED   
CAUSING FLASH FLOODING OF IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING AREAS IMMEDIATE 
BEHIND
THE LEVEE.

THE BREACH IS SIX FEET WIDE AND ONE FOOT DEEP.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. 


LAT...LON 3889 8719 3877 8732 3888 8737

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.