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Areal Flood Warning 14, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this areal flood warning at Mar 9, 2011, 3:17 AM EST for 5 counties in 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2011, 3:17 AM EST (08:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2011, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Daviess County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Mar 9, 1:52 AM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 1:52 AM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 8, 3:07 PM EST, 12 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 307 PM EST TUE MAR 8 2011 INZ021-030-031-036>042-045-046-048-049-052-055>057-062-063-065- 072-092015- CARROLL-CLINTON-HOWARD-MONTGOMERY-BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON- DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-PUTNAM-HENDRICKS-HANCOCK-HENRY-CLAY-JOHNSON- SHELBY-RUSH-MONROE-BROWN-DECATUR-JENNINGS- 307 PM EST TUE MAR 8 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT. THIS MAY LEAD TO MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND CAUSE STREAMS TO RISE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS MAY LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY...BUT SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. SNOW IS POSSIBLE LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) INZ028-029-035-043-044-047-051-053-054-060-061-064-067>071-092015- WARREN-TIPPECANOE-FOUNTAIN-VERMILLION-PARKE-MARION-VIGO-OWEN- MORGAN-SULLIVAN-GREENE-BARTHOLOMEW-KNOX-DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE- JACKSON- 307 PM EST TUE MAR 8 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT. THIS MAY LEAD TO MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG AREA RIVERS AND SOME STREAMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS MAY LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY...BUT SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. SNOW IS POSSIBLE LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG AREA RIVERS AND SOME STREAMS. SEE THE LATEST HYDROLOGIC STATEMENT FOR DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE)
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 9:04 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Jackson, Knox, Lawrence, Martin | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Jackson, Knox, Lawrence, Martin | 81 min |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2011Every areal flood warning in 2011
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.