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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Northern Indiana

July 9, 20138 counties in Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood watch at Jul 9, 2013, 1:52 PM EDT for 8 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Jul 9, 2013, 4:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 2013, 1:52 PM EDT (17:52 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 9, 2013, 4:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jul 10, 2013, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Flood severity: None

Counties Allen County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 202 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 476 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 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 flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jul 9, 7:38 AM EDT, 6 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 7:38 AM EDT, 6 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 5:26 AM EDT, 8 hours 26 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
526 AM EDT TUE JUL 9 2013

INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-
015-016-024-025-100930-
LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE-
PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-
MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-BERRIEN-
CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-
HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND...
MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA...
KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...
WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...ROCHESTER...WARSAW...
WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...
MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH...
NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR...
BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...NILES...
BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...
STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON...
ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA...
PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA
526 AM EDT TUE JUL 9 2013 /426 AM CDT TUE JUL 9 2013/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO...
SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

WHILE THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...STORMS WILL BE
MORE NUMEROUS OVERNIGHT.

ONLY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED WITH ANY STORMS TODAY.

EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES WITH THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT COULD
LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODED ROADS...STREAMS...CREEKS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS THE PRIMARY RISK. HAIL TO ONE INCH IN
DIAMETER COULD ALSO OCCUR. THE RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS APPEARS
GREATEST IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY...ESPECIALLY
SOUTHEAST OF HIGHWAY 24 IN INDIANA AND OHIO WHERE THERE IS A
SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING THROUGH
OVERNIGHT.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX

LMZ043-046-100930-
NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI-
526 AM EDT TUE JUL 9 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF
SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. A MUCH
GREATER RISK OF STORMS DEVELOPS LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT.
LOCALLY HIGH WINDS AND WAVES WILL BE LIKELY IN AND NEAR STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaGrange, Noble	50 min
Jul 9, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaGrange, Steuben	54 min
Jul 9, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Steuben	26 min
Jul 9, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Jay	49 min
Jul 9, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Jay	36 min
Jul 8, 8:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen, Van Wert	51 min
Jul 8, 9:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Allen	3 hr
Jul 9, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Henry	30 min
Jul 9, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Fulton	29 min

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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.