1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Apr 22, 1:30 AM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 130 AM EST MON APR 22 2002 CLDS WL BE THE MAIN WORRY TODAY WITH TIMING OF RWS BACK ACRS THE FA BY MID WEEK THE NEXT DILEMA. KIND-88D ONLY SHOWING A FEW WEAK RETURNS AS AN UPR LOW PLOWS ACRS THE WRN GT LKS WITH A SHEAR AXIS ROUNDING THE BASE OF THE TROF FM CNTRL LWR MI TO NRN MO HELPING INITIATE THE LGT PRECIP. MEANWHILE...THE DEPARTED CD FNT WAS WELL SE ACRS SERN KY...ERN TN AND INTO NRN LA AND ERN TX WITH HIGH PRES ACRS THE PLAINS. IR SAT PIX WERE SHOWING THE BACK EDGE OF THE LOW CLDS MAKING NICE PROGRESS INTO XTRM SWRN INDIANA BUT THE NRN PART WAS STILL QUITE A WAYS AWAY ACRS ERN IA. MODELS VERY CONSISTENT THIS TIME AROUND WITH ONLY DIFFERENCE BEING A SLIGHTLY STRONGER AND MORE PREOGRESSIVE ETA WRN TROF MOVING INTO THE NRN PLAINS BY WED MRNG WHICH RESULTS IN A SLIGHTLY FURTHER SE CD FNT FM CNTRL WI-NRN MO-NCNTRL OK. WL GO WITH THIS FASTER SOLUTION AS ETA TYPICALLY HANDLES SHALLOW CD AIRMASSES BETTER PER THE PMDHMD DISCUSSION. STILL...MODEL QPF FIELDS SIMILAR IN TRYING TO BRING SOME LGT PRECIP TO FAR WRN ZONES OVRNGT WED BEFORE THE AVN PUSHES THE FNT ACRS ON WED AFT WITH THE SIG PRECIP HOLDING OFF UNTIL THEN. MOS CONSISTENT IN ONLY BRINGING IN LESS THAN 30% POPS TUE NGT...SO PREFER TO LEAVE MENTION OF RWS TO WED. IN THE SHORT-TERM...UPR LOW WEAKENS AND BECOMES CONSOLIDATED WITH CANADIEN MARITIME LOW THIS AFT WITH CYLONIC FLOW TAKING OVR ACRS THE FA. MODEL TIME SECS WERE KEEPING SOME LOW LVL MOIST AROUND TODAY AND CU RULE WAS INDICATING SIG CU DEVELOPMENT. SWRN MOST PART OF THE FA MAY BE THE EXCEPTION AND COULD SEE A FEW BREAKS. THAT WL ALL CHG TNGT AS LOW LVL MOIST DRIES A BIT...SFC HIGH PRES MOVES ACRS AND DIURNAL EFFECT ENDS. SHOULD BE AT THE VERY LEAST PARTLY CLDY. SHARP UPR RIDGE APPROACHES TUE EVE. COLUMN IS PRETTY DRY TUE...BUT MODELS DO BRING SOME MOIST IN AT THE H850-H700 MB LYR LATE AS A WK S/W APPROACHES IN THE NW UPR FLOW. MODELS NOT INDICATING MUCH DIURNAL DEVELOPMENT...HOWEVER. FOR TUE NGT...WL JUST MENTION INCRSG CLDS. MOS TEMPS REAL CLOSE THROUGH THE PD AND APPEAR REASONABLE BASED ON EXPECTED CLD CVR/LOW LVL THERMAL PROGS. .IND...NONE. KOCH
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding along White river in Greene county. Flooding affects agricultural lands and bottomlands. A few roads closed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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