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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Indianapolis, IN

February 5, 2008Lawrence County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 5, 2008, 10:39 PM EST for Lawrence 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: Feb 5, 2008, 10:39 PM EST (03:39 UTC)
Expired: Feb 6, 2008, 1:45 AM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Lawrence County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:41 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 449 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 92 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 474 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 387 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KIND 060340
FFWIND
INC093-060645-
/O.NEW.KIND.FF.W.0009.080206T0339Z-080206T0645Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1039 PM EST TUE FEB 5 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BEDFORD...

* UNTIL 145 AM EST

* AT 1037 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 
  INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 
  AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN WILL FALL IN ONE HOUR...ON TOP OF ALREADY 
  SATURATED GROUND.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO OOLITIC

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE 
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS 
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

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 3898 8668 3899 8647 3899 8639 3900 8638
      3900 8631 3885 8628 3870 8633 3868 8669
TIME...MOT...LOC 0339Z 180DEG 0KT 3876 8654

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 5, 8:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Daviess, Greene, Knox, Sullivan	38 min
Feb 5, 8:34 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Greene, Knox, Sullivan	41 min
Feb 5, 8:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion, Vigo	44 min
Feb 5, 8:56 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Warren	4 hr
Feb 5, 8:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe, Owen	49 min
Feb 5, 9:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery, Morgan, Owen, Putnam	50 min
Feb 5, 9:39 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox, Martin	4 hr
Feb 5, 9:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Johnson, Marion, Morgan and 1 more	48 min
Feb 5, 10:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Lawrence, Martin	45 min
Feb 5, 10:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson	46 min
Feb 5, 11:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Jennings	45 min

Nearby

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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.