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Flood Watch 1, NWS Indianapolis, IN

February 20, 201425 counties in Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flood watch at Feb 20, 2014, 4:05 AM EST for 25 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Feb 20, 2014, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 20, 2014, 4:05 AM EST (09:05 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 20, 2014, 12:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 21, 2014, 2:15 AM EST
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Flood severity: None

All 25 counties

Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Warren County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 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 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2402 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 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 flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Feb 20, 3:25 AM EST, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 3:25 AM EST, 40 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 5:46 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Clinton, Howard, Tipton	41 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

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.