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Areal Flood Warning 62, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this areal flood warning at Jul 30, 2011, 9:13 AM EDT for Knox County, Indiana. It was in force for 5 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
- Jul 30, 2011, 9:13 AM EDT (13:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Knox County, IN
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:14 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 1824 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 Jul 30, 7:35 AM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 7:35 AM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 4:04 AM EDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 404 AM EDT SAT JUL 30 2011 INZ043>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-310815- VERMILLION-PARKE-PUTNAM-HENDRICKS-MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY-VIGO-CLAY- OWEN-MORGAN-JOHNSON-SHELBY-RUSH-SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN- BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 404 AM EDT SAT JUL 30 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED BUT LIGHTNING IS A CONCERN WITH ALL STORMS...AND SOME MAY CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND. HEAT INDICES WILL REACH THE MID AND UPPER 90S THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. HEAT INDICES WILL RANGE BETWEEN 95 AND 105 FROM SUNDAY INTO FRIDAY WITH THE HIGHEST READINGS TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF ANY OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. HOWEVER...DEADLY LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) INZ021-028>031-035>042-310815- CARROLL-WARREN-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-HOWARD-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY- BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-RANDOLPH- 404 AM EDT SAT JUL 30 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. HEAT INDEX READINGS WILL REACH THE LOWER 90S THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. HEAT INDEX READINGS WILL REACH 95 TO 100 FROM SUNDAY INTO WEDNESDAY THEN 90 TO 95 ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF ANY OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. HOWEVER...DEADLY LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) TUCEK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 10:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Knox | 54 min |
| Jul 30, 8:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Knox | 3 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.