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Areal Flood Warning 52, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 2, 2014Marion County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this areal flood warning at Jun 2, 2014, 7:29 PM EDT for Marion County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 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
Jun 2, 2014, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2014, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Marion County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 397 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2014-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 287 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2014-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 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
287 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
978 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 8:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementINDJennings33 min
Jun 1, 8:31 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryINDJennings3 hr
Jun 1, 8:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementINDJennings30 min
Jun 2, 6:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementINDDelaware34 min
Jun 2, 7:05 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryINDHancock, Hendricks, Marion, Putnam115 min

Nearby

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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.