Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2015
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2015, 10:07 PM EDT for Adams County, Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports 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 13, 2015, 10:07 PM EDT (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2015, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Adams County, IN, Wells County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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 13, 10:36 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 W Bluffton, IN | SR124 NEAR ADAMS ST IMPASSABLE WITH 2-3 FEET OF WATER. NUMEROUS SIDE STREETS IN BLUFFTON COVERED WITH 5 INCHES OF WATER. |
| Jun 13, 10:50 PM EDT | HEAVY RAIN 4 | 1 E Preble, IN | 6-8 WATER ON THE GROUND, WITH ABOUT 1-2 FLOWING OVER PARTS OF AREA ROADS. NEAR HWY 224 AND 300 W. |
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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
786
WGUS53 KIWX 140207
FFWIWX
INC001-179-140500-
/O.NEW.KIWX.FF.W.0004.150614T0207Z-150614T0500Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1007 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN WELLS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA...
NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA...
* UNTIL 100 AM EDT
* AT 1006 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BLUFFTON...DECATUR...OSSIAN...MONROE...PREBLE...UNIONDALE...
PONETO...VERA CRUZ...TRAVISVILLE...MURRAY...NORTH OAKS...
PETERSON...MONMOUTH...WELLSBURG...MAGLEY...CRAIGVILLE...
KINGSLAND...RIVARE...WILLIAMS AND TOCSIN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 4090 8530 4092 8496 4092 8480 4076 8480
4065 8522
$$
NWS1 follow-up statement
522
WGUS73 KIWX 140303
FFSIWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1103 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 2015
INC001-179-140500-
/O.CON.KIWX.FF.W.0004.000000T0000Z-150614T0500Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
WELLS IN-ADAMS IN-
1103 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 2015
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN WELLS AND NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTIES...
AT 1103 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING
NEAR BLUFFTON. UP TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH
FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BLUFFTON...DECATUR...OSSIAN...MONROE...PREBLE...UNIONDALE...PONETO...
VERA CRUZ...TRAVISVILLE...MURRAY...NORTH OAKS...PETERSON...
MONMOUTH...WELLSBURG...MAGLEY...CRAIGVILLE...KINGSLAND...RIVARE...
WILLIAMS AND TOCSIN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 4090 8530 4092 8496 4092 8480 4076 8480
4065 8522
$$
NWSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wells | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Wabash | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Adams, Allen, Wells | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | Adams, Huntington, Wells | 9 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:31 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wells | 59 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:31 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen | 10 days |
| Jun 14, 6:14 AM EDT | River Flood Watch | IWX | Allen | 56 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:33 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Allen | 9 days |
| Jun 14, 10:49 AM EDT | River Flood Watch | IWX | Fulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke | 5 days |
| Jun 14, 4:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko, Pulaski, White | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Adams | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 6:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Marshall, Starke | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2015Every flash 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.