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Areal Flood Advisory 49, NWS Indianapolis, IN

September 8, 2012Marion County, Morgan County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this areal flood advisory at Sep 8, 2012, 3:36 AM EDT for Marion County, Morgan County, Indiana. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 8, 2012, 3:36 AM EDT (07:36 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 2012, 7:30 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Marion County, IN, Morgan County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2012-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2012-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -113 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 advisory went out at Sep 7, 7:20 PM EDT, 8 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 7:20 PM EDT, 8 hours 16 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClay, Greene, Knox, Sullivan, Vigo49 min
Sep 7, 8:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone, Hamilton, Marion49 min
Sep 7, 9:17 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryINDBoone, Hamilton, Hancock, Johnson, Marion, Morgan3 hr
Sep 7, 9:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDecatur, Johnson, Rush, Shelby45 min
Sep 7, 10:32 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryINDDaviess, Knox, Lawrence, Martin3 hr
Sep 7, 10:39 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryINDShelby3 hr
Sep 7, 10:48 PM EDTTornado WarningINDBartholomew, Decatur, Jennings13 min
Sep 7, 11:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJackson, Jennings41 min
Sep 8, 12:29 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryINDMarion3 hr
Sep 8, 7:08 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryINDMarion, Morgan4 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in Indiana, 2012Every areal flood advisory in 2012

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.