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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Sep 9, 2016, 9:45 PM EDT for Marshall County, Pulaski County, Starke 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
- Sep 9, 2016, 9:45 PM EDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2016, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Marshall County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 10:59 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Plymouth, IN | NUMEROUS STREETS FLOODED IN THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH. CARS STRANDED AND SOME ARE FLOATING. |
| Sep 9, 11:56 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Wsw Plymouth, IN | ROAD CLOSED AND HIGH WATER SIGNS GOING UP IN CITY OF PLYMOUTH. HIGH WATER AT OAK RD AND W. JEFFERSON. |
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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted.
714
WGUS53 KIWX 100145
FFWIWX
INC099-131-149-100445-
/O.NEW.KIWX.FF.W.0008.160910T0145Z-160910T0445Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
945 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN STARKE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN INDIANA...
WESTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN INDIANA...
NORTHWESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
* UNTIL 1245 AM EDT/1145 PM CDT/
* AT 943 PM EDT/843 PM CDT/...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL ROUNDS
OF THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED
AREA.RADAR ESTIMATES THAT LOCALLY 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHWESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY AS WELL AS WESTERN
PULASKI COUNTY. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY AS
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MOVES OVER THE SAME AREAS...ESPECIALLY
NORTHWESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
PLYMOUTH...KNOX...WALKERTON...FRANCESVILLE...HAMLET...
MEDARYVILLE...KOONTZ LAKE...OAK GROVE...RIPLEY...OBER...DENHAM...
WINONA...ORA...GROVERTOWN...DONALDSON...TOTO...TYNER...
BASS LAKE AND BEARDSTOWN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.
&&
LAT...LON 4104 8693 4143 8654 4143 8647 4148 8647
4148 8642 4136 8629 4091 8692 4091 8693
$$
FISHERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 8:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 28 min |
| Sep 9, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Marshall | 30 min |
| Sep 9, 10:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Marshall, Saint Joseph | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 11:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall, Noble and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 12:09 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke | 6 hr |
| Sep 10, 12:38 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 9:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Blackford, Jay | 39 min |
| Sep 10, 3:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke | 4 days |
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.