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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana

July 27, 2006White County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2006, 5:28 PM EDT for White County, Indiana. It was in force for 2 hr. 1 report 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 27, 2006, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2006, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County White County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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 27, 6:25 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	Monticello, IN	NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED THROUGHOUT COUNTY DUE TO HIGH WATER

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

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 1086 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1111 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KIWX 272134
FFWIWX
INC181-272330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
528 PM EDT THU JUL 27 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR IDAVILLE AND AND NEAR      
  WOLCOTT. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. 
  RADAR INDICATES MUCH OF THE AREA FROM AROUND WOLCOTT               
  THROUGH MONTICELLO TO IDAVILLE HAS RECEIVED 2 TO 3 INCHES          
  OF RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN THIS    
  AREA OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING. 

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WOLCOTT...
  MONTICELLO AND MONON

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. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. 
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 4061 8711 4061 8677 4071 8677 4075 8675
      4074 8658 4092 8658 4085 8711

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KIWX 272231
FFSIWX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
626 PM EDT THU JUL 27 2006

INC181-272330-
WHITE IN-
626 PM EDT THU JUL 27 2006

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR WHITE
COUNTY...

AT 625 PM EDT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLOODING ON NUMEROUS 
ROADS IN THE CITY OF MONTICELLO AND MANY RURAL LOCATIONS IN WHITE 
COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
FALLEN IN THE PAST 3 HOURS WITH THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS ALONG THE U.S. 
ROUTE 24 CORRIDOR. THE HEAVIEST RAINS ARE NOW MOVING OUT OF WHITE 
COUNTY BUT RUNOFF FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO RESULT IN 
FLOODING. 

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO 
WOLCOTT...MONTICELLO...REYNOLDS...AND CHALMERS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO 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. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. 

IF YOU HAVE FLOODING TO REPORT...YOU CAN CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4061 8711 4061 8677 4071 8677 4075 8675
      4074 8658 4092 8658 4085 8711

$$

HITCHCOCK

000 
WGUS73 KIWX 272329
FFSIWX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
726 PM EDT THU JUL 27 2006

INC181-272336-
WHITE IN-
726 PM EDT THU JUL 27 2006

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 730 PM EDT(630 PM CDT) FOR
WHITE COUNTY...

HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER WHITE COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS EARLIER THIS 
EVENING DROPPED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME OVER 
MUCH OF THE COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAINS FELL ALONG THE U.S. ROUTE 24 
CORRIDOR...INCLUDING THE CITY OF MONTICELLO.

LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS MANY ROADS STILL FLOODED IN THE AREA. 
MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION THIS EVENING AND BE ALERT FOR FLOODED 
ROADWAYS. IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED ROAD...TURN AROUND AND FIND AN 
ALTERNATE ROUTE...NEVER ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS.

IF YOU HAVE FLOODING TO REPORT...YOU CAN CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
FLOOD INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 4061 8711 4061 8677 4071 8677 4075 8675
      4074 8658 4092 8658 4085 8711

$$

HITCHCOCK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 9:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	White	46 min
Jul 27, 3:27 PM EDT	Flood Watch	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, Fulton, Grant and 8 more	13 hr
Jul 27, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2006 Every flash flood warning in 2006

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.