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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Indianapolis, IN

January 17, 2005Sullivan County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 17, 2005, 11:49 PM EST for Sullivan County, Indiana. It was in force for 6 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 17, 2005, 11:49 PM EST (04:49 UTC)
Expired: Jan 18, 2005, 5:45 AM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sullivan County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 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 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 1375 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 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 180450
FFWIND
INC153-181045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1149 PM EST MON JAN 17 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR A LEVEE FAILURE IN...
  EXTREME WEST CENTRAL SULLIVAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 545 AM EST

* AT 1149 PM EST...A LEVEE ON THE WABASH RIVER JUST NORTH OF STATE 
ROAD 154 ON LEVEE ROAD IN SULLIVAN COUNTY WAS REPORTED AS HAVING 
FAILED CAUSING FLASH FLOODING OF IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING AREAS.

* AFFECTED LOCATIONS INCLUDE AGRICULTURAL AREAS NORTH OF HUTSONVILLE

LAT...LON 3914 8768 3913 8767 3911 8767 3908 8763
      3908 8761 3916 8764

$$

NIELD

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KIND 180818
FFSIND

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
314 AM EST TUE JAN 18 2005

INC153-181045-
SULLIVAN-
314 AM EST TUE JAN 18 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING DUE TO A LEVEE FAILURE CONTINUES UNTIL 545 
AM EST FOR EXTREME WEST CENTRAL SULLIVAN COUNTY...

LATE MONDAY EVENING...A LEVEE ON THE WABASH RIVER JUST NORTH OF 
STATE ROAD 154 ON LEVEE ROAD IN SULLIVAN COUNTY WAS REPORTED AS 
HAVING FAILED CAUSING FLASH FLOODING OF IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING 
AREAS.

AFFECTED LOCATIONS INCLUDE AGRICULTURAL AREAS NORTH OF HUTSONVILLE.

LAT...LON 3914 8768 3913 8767 3911 8767 3908 8763
      3908 8761 3916 8764

$$

JAS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 18, 12:28 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Vigo	6 hr

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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.