Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2011
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 2011, 8:01 PM EDT for 7 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2011, 8:01 PM EDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2011, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cass County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, Miami County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Wabash County, IN, White County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 5007 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
184 WGUS53 KIWX 030001 FFWIWX INC017-049-085-103-131-169-181-030600- /O.NEW.KIWX.FF.W.0020.110703T0001Z-110703T0600Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 801 PM EDT SAT JUL 2 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA... NORTHERN CASS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA... NORTHERN MIAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA... NORTHWESTERN WABASH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA... SOUTH CENTRAL KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA... SOUTHEASTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA... SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA... * UNTIL 200 AM EDT/100 AM CDT/ * AT 801 PM EDT/701 PM CDT/...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PARTS OF THE WARNED AREA. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... ROCHESTER...AKRON AND ROYAL CENTER. LAT...LON 4109 8583 4085 8579 4080 8665 4103 8669 $$ JAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wabash | 38 min |
| Jul 2, 8:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Pulaski, White | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 33 min |
| Jul 2, 9:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | White | 5 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:28 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | White | 9 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.