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Flood Watch 4, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flood watch at Jul 20, 2025, 3:03 AM EDT for 39 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Jul 20, 2025, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 2025, 3:03 AM EDT (07:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 20, 2025, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2025, 2:56 AM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Flood severity
- None
All 39 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 674 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Jul 20, 1:24 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 1:24 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 9:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Tippecanoe, Warren | 52 min |
| Jul 20, 9:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Tippecanoe | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 9:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tippecanoe | 35 min |
| Jul 20, 10:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Montgomery | 38 min |
| Jul 20, 10:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Clinton | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 10:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Boone, Clinton, Tipton | 39 min |
| Jul 20, 12:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Delaware, Hamilton, Henry, Madison, Randolph | 14 min |
| Jul 20, 12:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Delaware, Hamilton, Henry, Madison, Randolph | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Carroll, Howard | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Sullivan, Vigo | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Sullivan | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 7:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Clay, Greene, Sullivan, Vigo | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Sullivan | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 7:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Monroe | 39 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.