Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2008
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jan 8, 2008, 7:18 AM EST for Carroll County, White County, Indiana. It was in force for 12 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 8, 2008, 7:18 AM EST (12:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2008, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Major
Counties Carroll County, IN, White County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KIWX 081227 FFWIWX INC015-181-081815- /O.NEW.KIWX.FF.W.0002.080108T1218Z-080108T1815Z/ /00000.3.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 718 AM EST TUE JAN 8 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR A DAM FAILURE IN... CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA * UNTIL 115 PM EST TUESDAY AFTERNOON * AT 718 AM EST... THE FLOW THROUGH NORWAY DAM WAS 22883 CUBIC FEET PER SECOND. THIS IS A FLOOD EMERGENCY. THIS IS RECORD FLOODING AND FAILURE OF THE NORWAY DAM AND RESULTANT FLASH FLOODING DOWNSTREAM OF THE DAM IS BECOMING MORE LIKELY. IF THE DAM FAILS...FLOOD CRESTS OF 20 TO 25 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TAILWATER FLOW DOWNSTREAM OF NORWAY DAM WILL OCCUR. COMMUNITIES NEEDED TO BE EVACUATED INCLUDE NORWAY... MOTICELLO... EAST MONTICELLO... UPPER SUNSET PARK... GINGRICH ADDITION... RICHY PARK... SANDY BEACH... HORSE SHOE BEND... TIPPECANOE ESTATES... TECUMSEH BEND AND UNICORPORATED AREAS OF CARROLL ... WHITE... AND TIPPECANOE COUNTIES. PEOPLE BELOW THE DAM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION BY MONITORING LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION AND FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ANY REQUIRED EVACUATION AS OUTLINED BY LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS. PEOPLE IN LOW LYING AREAS BELOW THE DAM ARE URGED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. PEOPLE IN LOW LYING AREAS BELOW THE DAM ARE URGED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO SAFEGUARD LIFE AND PROPERTY. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS MORE INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE. LAT...LON 4080 8674 4065 8674 4067 8679 4079 8679 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS53 KIWX 081801 FFWIWX INC015-181-090015- /O.EXT.KIWX.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080109T0015Z/ /00000.U.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1254 PM EST TUE JAN 8 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EXCESSIVE RAIN IN... CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA * UNTIL 715 PM EST TUESDAY EVENING * AT 1254 PM EST...THE NORWAY DAM OPERATOR REPORTED FLOW OF 23157 CUBIC FEET PER SECOND THROUGH THE NORWAY DAM. FLOODING WAS OCCURRING DOWNSTREAM OF THE DAM ON THE TIPPECANOE RIVER AND EVACUATIONS OF HOMES IN THIS AREA WERE TAKING PLACE. THE EXCESSIVE FLOWS WERE CAUSED BY OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN UPSTREAM OF THE DAM OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. PEOPLE IN LOW LYING AREAS BELOW THE DAM ARE URGED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO SAFEGUARD LIFE AND PROPERTY. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS MORE INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE. LAT...LON 4080 8674 4065 8674 4067 8679 4079 8679 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 7:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 67 min |
| Jan 7, 8:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, LaPorte, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke, White | 67 min |
| Jan 7, 8:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, LaGrange, Saint Joseph | 65 min |
| Jan 7, 9:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Miami, Wabash | 38 min |
| Jan 7, 10:06 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Elkhart, LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 5:53 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Noble | 5 days |
| Jan 8, 5:53 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 12 days |
| Jan 8, 5:53 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 9 days |
| Jan 8, 5:53 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 10 days |
| Jan 8, 10:04 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami, Wabash | 5 days |
| Jan 8, 11:17 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 24 hr |
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.