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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Northern Indiana

June 26, 2013LaPorte County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2013, 6:29 AM CDT for LaPorte County, Indiana. It was in force for 6 hr. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 2013, 6:29 AM CDT (11:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2013, 12:30 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County LaPorte County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:29 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 26, 7:08 AM CDTFLOODMichigan City, INSTANDING WATER ON MANY ROADS IN MICHIGAN CITY
Jun 26, 7:30 AM CDTHEAVY RAIN 62 Wnw La Porte, IN4.0 INCHES SINCE 5 AM. 6 INCHES SINCE TUE PM.
Jun 26, 8:07 AM CDTFLASH FLOODLa Porte, INSTREETS POOLING WITH WATER ON NORTH STURDY RD BETWEEN EVANS AND LINCOLN ROADS
Jun 26, 8:30 AM CDTHEAVY RAIN 4.97La Porte, INSTORM TOTAL FROM TUE PM TO 930 AM WED.
Jun 26, 10:26 AM CDTHEAVY RAIN 5.65Michigan City, INSTORM TOTAL FROM 5 AM TO PRESENT

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 225 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 2013-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 741 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2013-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
741 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1385 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

772 
WGUS53 KIWX 261129
FFWIWX
INC091-261730-
/O.NEW.KIWX.FF.W.0009.130626T1129Z-130626T1730Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
629 AM CDT WED JUN 26 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LA PORTE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT/130 PM EDT WEDNESDAY/

* AT 625 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED    
  AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES OVER THE WARNED AREA SO FAR THIS MORNING     
  HAVE GENERALLY RANGED BETWEEN 3 AND 5 INCHES...WITH AN ADDITIONAL  
  1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE THROUGH MID MORNING. 

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  SPRINGVILLE...HESSTON...TRAIL CREEK...POTTAWATTOMIE PARK...MICHIGAN
  CITY AND LONG BEACH

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

TO REPORT FLOODING...POST YOUR INFORMATION ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA FACEBOOK PAGE...OR YOU CAN POST ON TWITTER
WITH THE HANDLE... @NWSIWX.

&&

LAT...LON 4174 8691 4175 8687 4176 8666 4145 8654
      4154 8695 4172 8695

$$

MCS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSteuben50 min
Jun 25, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXCass, Fulton45 min
Jun 25, 7:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke39 min
Jun 25, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart, LaGrange52 min
Jun 25, 8:00 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningIWX90 min
Jun 25, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart, Marshall, Saint Joseph50 min
Jun 25, 8:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange, Steuben54 min
Jun 25, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDeKalb, LaGrange, Noble42 min
Jun 25, 8:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXKosciusko35 min
Jun 25, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXKosciusko, Noble, Whitley42 min
Jun 25, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart, LaGrange41 min
Jun 25, 9:18 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXDeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben4 hr
Jun 25, 10:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXJay23 min
Jun 26, 1:17 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXDeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben9 hr
Jun 26, 4:53 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXKosciusko37 min
Jun 26, 5:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXLaPorte24 min
Jun 26, 5:22 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXLaPorte3 hr
Jun 26, 8:10 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXLaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke3 hr
Jun 26, 8:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchIWXAdams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more10 hr
Jun 26, 8:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningIWXKosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke6 hr
Jun 26, 9:00 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXFulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke, Whitley3 hr
Jun 26, 9:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAdams, Allen, Wells, Whitley39 min
Jun 26, 10:17 AM CDTRiver Flood WatchIWXFulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke63 hr
Jun 26, 10:28 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningIWXLaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke6 days
Jun 26, 12:30 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningIWXLaPorte6 hr
Jun 26, 3:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAdams, Blackford, Jay, Wells56 min
Jun 26, 3:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXHuntington24 min
Jun 26, 5:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXSteuben43 min
Jun 26, 5:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXDeKalb41 min
Jun 26, 6:38 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningIWXLaPorte9 hr

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.