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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood watch at Oct 5, 2013, 11:49 AM EDT for 7 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio; Hillsdale County, Michigan. It took effect at Oct 6, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 2013, 11:49 AM EDT (15:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 6, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2013, 3:44 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Jay County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wells County, IN, Hillsdale County, MI, 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), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:52 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 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 348 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
- 774 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 Oct 4, 4:37 PM EDT, 19 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 4:37 PM EDT, 19 hours 12 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | White | 50 min |
| Oct 5, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 34 min |
| Oct 5, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass, Miami | 22 min |
| Oct 5, 12:03 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Fulton, Henry, Williams | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Ohio, 2013Flash Flood Watches in Indiana, 2013Flash Flood Watches in Michigan, 2013Every flash flood watch in 2013
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.