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Areal Flood Warning 33, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this areal flood warning at Feb 20, 2014, 5:46 PM EST for Clinton County, Howard County, Tipton County, Indiana. It was in force for 41 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2014, 5:46 PM EST (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2014, 10:40 AM EST
- In force
- 41 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Clinton County, IN, Howard County, IN, Tipton County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 582 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 576 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 warning went out at Feb 20, 3:55 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 3:55 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Feb 20, 3:15 PM EST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 315 PM EST THU FEB 20 2014 INZ030-031-037>042-202215- CLINTON-HOWARD-BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-RANDOLPH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRANKFORT...KOKOMO...ANDERSON...MUNCIE 315 PM EST THU FEB 20 2014 ...PATCHY DENSE FOG... PATCHY AREAS OF DENSE FOG ARE EXPECTED INTO EARLY EVENING AS MILD AND HUMID AIR SPREADS NORTH ACROSS THE AREA. VISIBILITY NEAR ONE QUARTER MILE HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM NEAR GEIST RESERVOIR UP TOWARDS ANDERSON. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION AS ABRUPT CHANGES IN VISIBILITY MAY BE ENCOUNTERED IN THESE FOGGY AREAS. DRT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 4:05 AM EST | Flood Watch | IND | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clinton, Decatur and 19 more | 22 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:14 AM EST | Wind Advisory | IND | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more | 38 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:40 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Jackson | 3 days |
| Feb 20, 11:40 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Lawrence, Martin | 8 days |
| Feb 20, 11:40 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Lawrence, Martin | 8 days |
| Feb 20, 11:40 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Lawrence, Martin | 8 days |
| Feb 20, 11:40 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Delaware, Madison | 64 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:40 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Carroll, Tippecanoe, White | 47 hr |
| Feb 20, 2:05 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Howard, Montgomery, Tippecanoe and 2 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion, Vigo | 44 min |
| Feb 20, 6:56 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Boone, Clay, Daviess, Fountain, Greene, Hendricks and 10 more | 25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.