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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 17, 20154 counties in Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2015, 5:59 PM EDT for 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 3 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: Jul 17, 2015, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2015, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Hendricks County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Shelby County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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
Jul 17, 6:30 PM EDT	HEAVY RAIN 1.49	5 Sw Plainfield, IN	RAIN OF BETWEEN 1.25 AND 1.49 INCHES WAS REPORTED AT I-70 REST STOP

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

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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-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: 67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1042 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

774 
WGUS53 KIND 172159
FFWIND
INC063-081-109-145-180100-
/O.NEW.KIND.FF.W.0036.150717T2159Z-150718T0100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
559 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA...
  JOHNSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA...
  SOUTHEASTERN HENDRICKS COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA...
  SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA...

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT
    
* AT 558 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING 
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THERE ARE REPORTS OF TWO INCHES 
  OF RAIN THAT HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO 
  BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  SHELBYVILLE...GREENWOOD...FRANKLIN...MARTINSVILLE...MOORESVILLE...
  NEW WHITELAND...EDINBURGH...WHITELAND...BARGERSVILLE...BROOKLYN...
  FLAT ROCK...PRINCES LAKES...GENEVA...TRAFALGAR...MONROVIA...ST.
  PAUL...MORGANTOWN...CLAYTON...PARAGON AND FAIRLAND.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
 INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 79 AND 100.
 INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 50 AND 65.
 INTERSTATE 74 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 102 AND 123.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3934 8608 3935 8662 3947 8663 3947 8668
      3970 8659 3965 8633 3963 8632 3964 8595
      3969 8593 3961 8563 3935 8563

$$

PUMA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 1:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hamilton	48 min
Jul 17, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Montgomery	32 min
Jul 17, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Tippecanoe	24 min
Jul 17, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Randolph	47 min
Jul 17, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hamilton	43 min
Jul 17, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Montgomery	39 min
Jul 17, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Randolph	42 min
Jul 17, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hendricks, Marion	44 min
Jul 17, 3:47 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	IND	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more	27 hr
Jul 17, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hancock	35 min
Jul 17, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Tippecanoe	46 min
Jul 17, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Marion	45 min
Jul 17, 4:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hendricks, Marion, Montgomery, Putnam	5 hr
Jul 17, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton, Tippecanoe	31 min
Jul 17, 4:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clinton, Tippecanoe	27 min
Jul 17, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton	32 min
Jul 17, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Rush, Shelby	46 min
Jul 17, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Montgomery	30 min
Jul 17, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks	25 min
Jul 17, 5:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Clinton, Tippecanoe	4 hr
Jul 17, 5:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Montgomery	3 hr
Jul 17, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan	32 min
Jul 17, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Putnam	37 min

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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.