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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Northern Indiana

June 19, 2014White County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2014, 4:14 PM EDT for White County, Indiana. It was in force for 6 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 2014, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2014, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County White County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 19, 6:04 PM EDT	FLOOD	Chalmers, IN	COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTS WATER OVER ROADS IN SOUTHERN WHITE COUNTY. NO ROAD CLOSURES CURRENTLY.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 1329 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

533 
WGUS53 KIWX 192014
FFWIWX
INC181-200215-
/O.NEW.KIWX.FF.W.0004.140619T2014Z-140620T0215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
414 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA...

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT/915 PM CDT/

* AT 408 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL PERSTISTING ACROSS  
  SOUTHWESTERN WHITE COUNTY WITH LITTLE OVERALL MOVEMENT. 

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  REYNOLDS...SMITHSON...BADGER GROVE AND CHALMERS.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP INTO THIS EVENING PRODUCING 
RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR CAUSING FLASH FLOODING IN 
LOW AREAS AND RAPID RIVER AND STREAM RESPONSES. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...
HOAGLAND DITCH...BIG CREEK...LITTLE PINE CREEK...MOOTS CREEK...SPRING
CREEK...TIPPECANOE RIVER...BIG PINE CREEK...NORTH FORK BURNETT
CREEK...HONEY CREEK AND MCKILLIP DITCH.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 4085 8710 4085 8700 4068 8677 4058 8677
      4057 8678 4059 8710 4084 8711

$$

FISHER

2 follow-up statements

065 
WGUS73 KIWX 192102
FFSIWX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
502 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2014

INC181-200215-
/O.CON.KIWX.FF.W.0004.000000T0000Z-140620T0215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
WHITE IN-
502 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2014

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM EDT/915 PM
CDT/ FOR SOUTHWESTERN WHITE COUNTY...

AT 456 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING.  THESE 
THUNDERSTORMS WERE PERSISTING ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 
WOLCOTT TO CHALMERS LINE AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO 
CHALMERS...BROOKSTON AND WOLCOTT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...
HOAGLAND DITCH...BIG CREEK...LITTLE PINE CREEK...MOOTS CREEK...SPRING
CREEK...TIPPECANOE RIVER...BIG PINE CREEK...NORTH FORK BURNETT
CREEK...HONEY CREEK AND MCKILLIP DITCH.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE 
WARNED AREA OVER THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 4085 8710 4085 8700 4068 8677 4058 8677
      4057 8678 4059 8710 4084 8711

$$

FISHER

277 
WGUS73 KIWX 192247
FFSIWX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
647 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2014

INC181-192256-
/O.CAN.KIWX.FF.W.0004.000000T0000Z-140620T0215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
WHITE IN-
647 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2014

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWESTERN WHITE
COUNTY...

THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED THE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL EARLIER HAVE 
MOVED OUT OF THE WARNING AREA...ENDING THE IMMEDIATE THREAT FOR 
FLASH FLOODING. HOWEVER...THE CHANCE REMAINS FOR ADDITIONAL 
THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP AT ANY TIME THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE 
NIGHT WITH HEAVY RAIN REMAINING THE MAIN CONCERN. 

LAT...LON 4085 8710 4085 8700 4068 8677 4058 8677
      4057 8678 4059 8710 4084 8711

$$

FISHER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 10:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski, White	49 min
Jun 18, 10:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami	48 min
Jun 18, 11:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Cass, Miami, White	3 hr
Jun 18, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant, Miami, Wabash	59 min
Jun 19, 12:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Adams	27 min
Jun 19, 2:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko	24 min
Jun 19, 4:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Jay	55 min
Jun 19, 4:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Blackford, Grant	35 min
Jun 19, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	White	42 min
Jun 19, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	37 min
Jun 19, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, White	43 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.