Alert archive / Indiana / Flood Watches in 2009
Flood Watch 1, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flood watch at Mar 7, 2009, 9:53 PM EST for 7 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Mar 8, 2009, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2009, 9:53 PM EST (02:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 8, 2009, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2009, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Carroll County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Howard County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Warren County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Mar 7, 9:50 PM EST, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 9:50 PM EST, 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 7, 1:14 PM EST, 8 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 114 PM EST SAT MAR 7 2009 INZ021-030-031-036>042-044>049-052>057-061>065-068>072-081815- CARROLL-CLINTON-HOWARD-MONTGOMERY-BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON- DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-PARKE-PUTNAM-HENDRICKS-MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY- CLAY-OWEN-MORGAN-JOHNSON-SHELBY-RUSH-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN- BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 114 PM EST SAT MAR 7 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GREATEST AFTER 9 PM THIS EVENING AS A SLOW MOVING FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE A HAZARD ACCOMPANYING ALL STORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT AND COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. WINDS WILL GUST TO AROUND 35 MPH THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AND DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL INDIANA ON SUNDAY. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE THREAT DIMINISHING BY SUNDAY EVENING. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE THREAT...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS. OUTSIDE OF THE STORMS...WINDS WILL GUST TO 35 MPH. MORE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY ON SUNDAY. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) INZ028-029-035-043-051-060-067-081815- WARREN-TIPPECANOE-FOUNTAIN-VERMILLION-VIGO-SULLIVAN-KNOX- 114 PM EST SAT MAR 7 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GREATEST AFTER 9 PM THIS EVENING AS A SLOW MOVING FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE A HAZARD ACCOMPANYING ALL STORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT AND COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. WINDS WILL GUST TO AROUND 35 MPH THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AND DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL INDIANA ON SUNDAY. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE THREAT DIMINISHING BY SUNDAY EVENING. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE THREAT...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS. OUTSIDE OF THE STORMS...WINDS WILL GUST TO 35 MPH. THE WABASH RIVER IS EXPECTED TO BECOME FLOODED AFTER TUESDAY OF THIS WEEK. SEE THE LATEST HYDROLOGIC STATEMENT FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY ON SUNDAY. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 7:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 5:13 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | IND | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 2:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Knox, Sullivan | 30 min |
| Mar 8, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin | 44 min |
| Mar 8, 3:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Martin | 19 min |
| Mar 8, 3:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence | 38 min |
| Mar 8, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe | 36 min |
| Mar 8, 4:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton, Howard, Tipton | 53 min |
| Mar 8, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Lawrence, Martin | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jennings | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 5:44 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Carroll, Tippecanoe, White | 38 hr |
Nearby
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.