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Areal Flood Advisory 13, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 15, 2016Boone County, Hamilton County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this areal flood advisory at Jun 15, 2016, 5:23 PM EDT for Boone County, Hamilton County, Indiana. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2016, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2016, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Boone County, IN, Hamilton County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 1089 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 advisory went out at Jun 15, 4:38 PM EDT, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 4:38 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 5:09 AM EDT, 12 hours 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
509 AM EDT WED JUN 15 2016

INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-160915-
CARROLL-WARREN-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-HOWARD-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY-BOONE-
TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-VERMILLION-PARKE-PUTNAM-
HENDRICKS-MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY-VIGO-CLAY-OWEN-MORGAN-JOHNSON-SHELBY-
RUSH-SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS-
MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LAFAYETTE...FRANKFORT...KOKOMO...
CRAWFORDSVILLE...ANDERSON...MUNCIE...INDIANAPOLIS...TERRE HAUTE...
SHELBYVILLE...BLOOMINGTON...COLUMBUS...VINCENNES...BEDFORD...SEYMOUR
509 AM EDT WED JUN 15 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

OUTLOOK: THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HEAT INDEX
VALUES IN THE MID 90S TO LOW 100S ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON.

HAZARDS: DAMAGING WINDS. LARGE HAIL. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. HEAT.

TIMING: THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

DISCUSSION: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA THIS
MORNING WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA BY LATE MORNING. AFTER A LULL
EXPECT MORE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA AS A FRONTAL
SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL INDIANA INTERACTS WITH AN UNSTABLE
AIR MASS AND AN UPPER WAVE TO BRING CHANCES FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA. THE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL
BE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

OUTLOOK: THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
NORTHEAST INDIANA THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THEN THERE ARE CHANCES FOR
THUNDERSTORMS EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH ANOTHER FRONT APPROACHING. AT
THIS TIME SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.

DISCUSSION: AN UPPER WAVE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST INDIANA WILL
BRING A SMALL CHANCE FOR A THUNDERSTORM TO THE NORTHEASTERN
COUNTIES ON THURSDAY. AFTER A DRY WEEKEND, ANOTHER FRONTAL SYSTEM
WILL APPROACH TO START THE WORK WEEK THAT WILL BRING MORE
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES TO THE AREA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND
CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL
LOWERCASE)

CP

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 5:11 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 15, 5:19 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 15, 5:20 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Greene, Sullivan	42 min
Jun 15, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Greene	39 min
Jun 15, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hamilton	40 min
Jun 15, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Marion	37 min
Jun 15, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene, Owen, Sullivan	31 min
Jun 15, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Martin	37 min
Jun 15, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton	33 min
Jun 15, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Madison, Marion	37 min
Jun 15, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Greene, Monroe, Owen	35 min
Jun 15, 4:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox, Sullivan	3 hr
Jun 15, 4:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Marion	2 hr
Jun 15, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox, Martin	28 min
Jun 15, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan and 2 more	30 min
Jun 15, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery	36 min
Jun 15, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Lawrence, Martin	32 min
Jun 15, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Sullivan, Vermillion and 1 more	25 min
Jun 15, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Rush	32 min
Jun 15, 5:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Vigo	56 min
Jun 15, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Greene, Hendricks, Morgan, Owen, Parke and 3 more	30 min
Jun 15, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox, Sullivan	31 min
Jun 15, 6:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Marion	3 hr
Jun 15, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Rush, Shelby	23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.