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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 2005, 4:07 PM EST for Brown County, Indiana. It was in force for 113 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
- May 19, 2005, 4:07 PM EST (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2005, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brown County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 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 KIND 192108 FFWIND INC013-200000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 407 PM EST THU MAY 19 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 700 PM EST * AT 403 PM EST...FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR NASHVILLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF BLOOMINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST TWO HOURS. ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PUSH ACROSS THE AREA IN THE NEXT HOUR AND THIS WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. 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 3931 8636 3906 8635 3906 8613 3930 8616 $$ PUMA
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KIND 192201 FFSIND FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 458 PM EST THU MAY 19 2005 INC013-200000- BROWN- 458 PM EST THU MAY 19 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM EST FOR CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY... WAIST DEEP WATER WAS REPORTED ALONG ROUTE 45 NEAR SPEARSVILLE. OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DROP RAINFALL. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST 700 PM. AT 456 PM EST...A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES EAST OF NASHVILLE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF SEYMOUR...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH. DO NOT DRIVE OR WADE INTO FLOODWATERS LAT...LON 3931 8636 3906 8635 3906 8613 3930 8616 $$ PUMA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Putnam | 44 min |
| May 19, 1:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Morgan, Putnam | 48 min |
| May 19, 2:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Martin | 31 min |
| May 19, 2:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Morgan | 44 min |
| May 19, 3:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Johnson, Morgan | 35 min |
| May 19, 3:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown | 24 min |
| May 19, 3:41 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Morgan | 2 hr |
| May 19, 3:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe, Morgan, Owen | 29 min |
| May 19, 3:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur | 28 min |
| May 19, 4:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe | 36 min |
| May 19, 4:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jennings | 35 min |
| May 19, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 46 min |
| May 19, 4:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jennings | 23 min |
| May 19, 4:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe | 35 min |
| May 19, 4:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe | 30 min |
| May 19, 4:56 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Monroe | 2 hr |
| May 19, 5:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 27 min |
| May 19, 5:04 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew | 116 min |
| May 19, 5:21 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Greene | 114 min |
| May 19, 5:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson | 37 min |
| May 19, 5:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings | 62 min |
| May 19, 6:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Tippecanoe, Warren | 46 min |
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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.