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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2015, 9:44 PM EDT for Cass County, Miami County, Indiana. It was in force for 4 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 15, 2015, 9:44 PM EDT (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2015, 1:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cass County, IN, Miami County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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 15, 10:24 PM EDT | HEAVY RAIN 3.26 | 1 Nne Wells, IN | STORM TOTAL SINCE 6PM. |
| Jun 15, 10:24 PM EDT | HEAVY RAIN 3.26 | 2 Wsw Peru, IN | STORM TOTAL SINCE 6PM. |
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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WGUS53 KIWX 160144
FFWIWX
INC017-103-160545-
/O.NEW.KIWX.FF.W.0007.150616T0144Z-150616T0545Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
944 PM EDT MON JUN 15 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN MIAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
SOUTHEASTERN CASS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
* UNTIL 145 AM EDT
* AT 942 PM EDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED SIGNIFICANT FLOODING
ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY
FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
PERU...GRISSOM AFB...WALTON...BUNKER HILL...WELLS...FLORA...
ONWARD...NEAD...ANOKA AND DEACON.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 4078 8607 4075 8594 4063 8608 4061 8637
4071 8637
$$
BENTLEY1 follow-up statement
069
WGUS73 KIWX 160415
FFSIWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1215 AM EDT TUE JUN 16 2015
INC017-103-160545-
/O.CON.KIWX.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-150616T0545Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MIAMI IN-CASS IN-
1215 AM EDT TUE JUN 16 2015
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 AM EDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN MIAMI AND SOUTHEASTERN CASS COUNTIES...
AT 1210 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS PRODUCING HEAVY
RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA WITH UP TO AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF
RAINFALL EXPECTED THROUGH 130 AM EDT WHICH WILL EXACERBATE ONGOING
FLOODING. THE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO END AROUND 2 AM EDT HOWEVER
OVERLAND FLOODING WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING
ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
PERU...GRISSOM AFB...WALTON...BUNKER HILL...WELLS...FLORA...ONWARD...
NEAD...ANOKA AND DEACON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 4078 8607 4075 8594 4063 8608 4061 8637
4071 8637
$$
JBALLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall, Starke | 9 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | White | 26 min |
| Jun 15, 9:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Huntington, Kosciusko, Marshall, Miami and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 15, 11:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, Huntington, Wabash | 5 days |
| Jun 15, 11:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke | 9 days |
| Jun 15, 11:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Carroll, Pulaski, White | 9 days |
| Jun 15, 11:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Cass, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash, Whitley | 4 days |
| Jun 15, 11:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Blackford, Huntington, Jay, Wabash, Wells | 5 days |
| Jun 15, 11:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 8 days |
| Jun 15, 11:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wells | 9 days |
| Jun 15, 11:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami, Wabash | 51 hr |
| Jun 15, 11:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Allen | 7 days |
| Jun 15, 11:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 8 days |
| Jun 15, 11:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Allen | 57 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:52 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, Fulton, Grant and 11 more | 12 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:52 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Carroll, White | 7 days |
| Jun 16, 4:03 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Adams, Carroll, Cass, Huntington, Miami, Tippecanoe and 2 more | 59 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:03 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke | 4 days |
| Jun 16, 4:03 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Allen | 21 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, Fulton, Grant and 12 more | 12 hr |
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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.