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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana

June 14, 2015Allen County, Putnam County, Van Wert County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this areal flood warning at Jun 14, 2015, 3:01 PM EDT for Allen County, Putnam County, Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 24 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 14, 2015, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Allen County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2015-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 547 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2015-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
547 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
927 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.4

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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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Jun 14, 1:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 6:34 AM EDT, 8 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
634 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 2015

INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-
015-016-024-025-151130-
LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE-
PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-
MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-BERRIEN-
CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-
HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND...
MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA...
KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...
WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...ROCHESTER...WARSAW...
WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...
MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH...
NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR...
BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...NILES...
BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...
STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON...
ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA...
PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA
634 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO...
NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. A FEW OF THESE
STORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE SOME DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE WILL BE PERSISTENT CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE
WEEK. THE HIGHEST CHANCES APPEAR TO BE IN THE MONDAY THROUGH
MONDAY EVENING TIMEFRAME...AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY
NIGHT. THERE IS A RISK OF ISOLATED STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE
STORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY EXACERBATE
FLOODING AS WELL THROUGH THE WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND
AGAIN MONDAY AFTERNOON.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX

LMZ043-046-151130-
NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI-
634 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF
 LAKE MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TODAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD
PRODUCE STRONG WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE WILL BE PERSISTENT CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE
WEEK. THE HIGHEST CHANCES APPEAR TO BE IN THE MONDAY THROUGH
MONDAY EVENING TIMEFRAME...AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY
NIGHT. THERE IS A RISK OF ISOLATED STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE
STORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 8:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningIWXHuntington, Wells3 hr
Jun 13, 9:00 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXWabash2 hr
Jun 13, 9:42 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXAdams, Allen, Wells2 hr
Jun 13, 10:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningIWXAdams, Wells3 hr
Jun 13, 11:40 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIWXAdams, Huntington, Wells9 hr
Jun 14, 3:31 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXHuntington, Wells59 hr
Jun 14, 3:31 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAdams, Allen10 days
Jun 14, 6:14 AM EDTRiver Flood WatchIWXAllen56 hr
Jun 14, 10:33 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen9 days
Jun 14, 10:49 AM EDTRiver Flood WatchIWXFulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke5 days
Jun 14, 4:09 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXFulton, Kosciusko, Pulaski, White3 hr
Jun 14, 5:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXPulaski50 min
Jun 14, 5:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAdams39 min
Jun 14, 6:25 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXMarshall, Starke3 hr
Jun 13, 9:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAllen72 min
Jun 14, 12:17 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXAllen, Putnam, Van Wert3 hr
Jun 14, 5:38 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen, Paulding, Putnam7 days
Jun 14, 5:38 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen, Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam3 days

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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.