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Areal Flood Warning 8, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 19, 2015Daviess County, Knox County, Martin County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this areal flood warning at Jun 19, 2015, 6:31 PM EDT for Daviess County, Knox County, Martin County, Indiana. It was in force for 6 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 19, 2015, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2015, 12:30 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Daviess County, IN, Knox County, IN, Martin County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 207 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2015-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2015-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 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 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 Jun 19, 6:08 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 6:08 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 19, 5:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 4:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchINDBartholomew, Brown, Daviess, Decatur, Greene, Jackson and 6 more31 hr
Jun 19, 8:17 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningINDBrown, Clay, Greene, Monroe, Owen6 hr
Jun 19, 8:30 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryINDBoone, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam3 hr
Jun 19, 11:50 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryINDBoone, Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam6 hr
Jun 19, 11:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningINDJackson, Lawrence, Washington4 days
Jun 19, 11:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningINDPutnam22 hr
Jun 19, 11:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningINDBoone, Marion11 hr
Jun 19, 11:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningINDHamilton, Marion46 hr
Jun 19, 11:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningINDMarion, Morgan62 hr
Jun 19, 11:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningINDMarion, Morgan72 hr
Jun 19, 11:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningINDMonroe, Morgan, Owen3 days
Jun 19, 11:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningINDMonroe, Morgan, Owen3 days
Jun 19, 11:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningINDGreene, Monroe, Owen14 days
Jun 19, 11:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningINDDaviess, Greene, Knox15 days
Jun 19, 11:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningINDDaviess, Greene, Knox16 days
Jun 19, 11:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningINDClay, Greene47 hr
Jun 19, 3:52 PM EDTTornado WarningINDDaviess, Greene, Knox, Sullivan23 min
Jun 19, 4:14 PM EDTTornado WarningINDDaviess, Greene, Knox, Sullivan46 min
Jun 19, 5:04 PM EDTTornado WarningINDDaviess, Knox26 min
Jun 19, 5:10 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningINDKnox6 hr
Jun 19, 6:23 PM EDTTornado WarningINDLawrence, Martin37 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2015Every areal flood warning in 2015

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.