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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2008, 3:34 AM CDT for LaPorte County, Starke 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
- Aug 5, 2008, 3:34 AM CDT (08:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2008, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties LaPorte County, IN, Starke County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 7429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 819 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.9
- Supercell composite
- 20.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KIWX 050834
FFWIWX
INC091-149-051430-
/O.NEW.KIWX.FF.W.0021.080805T0834Z-080805T1430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
334 AM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN LA PORTE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA
STARKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA
* UNTIL 930 AM CDT
* AT 328 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13
MILES WEST OF HASKELL TO BASS LAKE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
SOUTH HAVEN TO 4 MILES SOUTH OF KNOX...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40
MPH.
* THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...
KNOX AND WANATAH...
HAMLET...
SOUTH WANATAH AND WINONA...
HASKELL AND THOMASTON...
BREMS...
HANNA AND OBER...
ADDITIONAL LOCAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE LIKELY IN THE
WARNED AREA AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TRAIN OUT OF NORTHEAST
ILLINOIS EARLY THIS MORNING. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES WIDESPREAD 2 TO
4 INCH RAIN AMOUNTS IN THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 430 AM EDT...330 AM CDT.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM CONTINUED 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 ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 4151 8693 4143 8648 4118 8648 4117 8653
4118 8693
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS73 KIWX 050933
FFSIWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
533 AM EDT TUE AUG 5 2008
INC091-149-051430-
/O.CON.KIWX.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080805T1430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
STARKE IN-LA PORTE IN-
433 AM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 AM CDT FOR
SOUTHERN LA PORTE AND STARKE COUNTIES...
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO GROVERTOWN...
KNOX...LA CROSSE...OBER...OAK GROVE...LOMAX...ENGLISH LAKE...
WINONA...TOTO...SAN PIERRE...NORTH JUDSON AND BASS LAKE.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO ONE INCH THROUGH 530 AM CDT ARE
POSSIBLE OVER STARKE COUNTY WHILE HEAVY RAIN COMES TO AN END OVER
FAR SOUTHWESTERN LAPORTE COUNTY BY 500 AM CDT.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
IF YOU HAVE FLOODING TO REPORT...YOU CAN CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 4151 8693 4143 8648 4118 8648 4117 8653
4118 8693
$$000
WGUS73 KIWX 051422 RRA
FFSIWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1022 AM EDT TUE AUG 5 2008
INC091-149-051432-
/O.EXP.KIWX.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080805T1430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
STARKE IN-LA PORTE IN-
922 AM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 1030 AM EDT/930 AM CDT/ FOR
SOUTHERN LA PORTE AND STARKE COUNTIES...
IF YOU HAVE FLOODING TO REPORT...YOU CAN CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 4151 8693 4143 8648 4118 8648 4117 8653
4118 8693
$$
JCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 119 min | |
| Aug 4, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Marshall, Pulaski, Saint Joseph, Starke, White | 68 min |
| Aug 4, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Starke | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 54 min |
| Aug 4, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall and 7 more | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Fulton, LaPorte, Marshall, Starke | 58 min |
| Aug 4, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Saint Joseph | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 12:06 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 54 min | |
| Aug 5, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Starke | 63 min |
| Aug 5, 12:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Fulton, LaPorte, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke | 118 min |
| Aug 5, 2:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Cass, Fulton, LaPorte, Miami, Pulaski, Starke and 1 more | 114 min |
| Aug 5, 4:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Fulton, Pulaski | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami, White | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 10:22 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | IWX | Carroll, White | 27 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.