Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 2016, 12:55 PM EDT for Delaware County, 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
- Aug 13, 2016, 12:55 PM EDT (16:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2016, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Delaware County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 1:20 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Muncie, IN | WATER OVER ROADS IN MUNCIE. REPORT VIA TWITTER. |
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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 994 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted.
814
WGUS53 KIND 131655
FFWIND
INC035-132000-
/O.NEW.KIND.FF.W.0008.160813T1655Z-160813T2000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1255 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
DELAWARE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...
* UNTIL 400 PM EDT
* AT 1253 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED
AREA. BETWEEN ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH
FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
MUNCIE...ALBANY...YORKTOWN...EATON...DALEVILLE...
GASTON AND BALL STATE UNIVERSITY.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 69 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 239 AND 243.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODWATERS. TURN AROUND...DO NOT DROWN!
LAT...LON 4023 8523 4018 8534 4008 8554 4008 8557
4038 8555 4037 8522
$$
PUMAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 3:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | IND | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 31 more | 3 days |
| Aug 13, 11:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence, Washington | 5 days |
| Aug 13, 11:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe, Owen | 60 hr |
| Aug 13, 11:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox | 7 days |
| Aug 13, 11:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox | 7 days |
| Aug 13, 11:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike | 9 days |
| Aug 13, 11:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike | 10 days |
| Aug 13, 11:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Gibson, Knox | 8 days |
| Aug 13, 11:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Knox, Sullivan | 4 days |
| Aug 13, 11:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Knox, Sullivan | 5 days |
| Aug 13, 11:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Gibson, Knox, Posey | 7 days |
| Aug 13, 11:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Greene | 4 days |
| Aug 13, 12:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 1:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 2:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Daviess, Greene, Jackson, Lawrence and 3 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.