Flash Flood, Warren
- When
- June 12, 7:00 AM EST to 10:10 AM EST
- Where
- Warren County, Countywide
- Property damage
- $31,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.347, -87.353 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flooding in Indiana, June 12, 2004
Heavy rain fell on already saturated ground resulting in numerous road closures and some washouts. By the morning of the 12th, as much as 9 inches of rain had fallen across parts of Tippecanoe and Clinton counties since the evening of the 10th.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 7 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $538,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Heavy rain fell on already saturated ground resulting in numerous road closures and some washouts. By the morning of the 12th, as much as 9 inches of rain had fallen across parts of Tippecanoe and Clinton counties since the evening of the 10th. There were 37 evacuations in Lafayette and one at Edna Mills in Clinton county. 3 feet of water covered parts of State Road 26 near Edna Mills. There was also hundreds of thousands of dollars in basement damage mainly in Tippecanoe County.
What forecasters said that day
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 Jun 12, 3:10 AM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 3:10 AM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 310 AM EST SAT JUN 12 2004 .DISCUSSION... FORECAST FOCUS IS ON THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN TODAY AS WELL AS CHANCES FOR RAIN INTO NEXT WEEK. DIFFERENCES IN MODELS EXIST AGAIN TODAY...WITH GFS SHOWING CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK AS SHOWN BY QPF BULLSEYES AND ANOMALOUS VORT MAXES AT 500 MB. THUS WILL CONCENTRATE ON ETA SOLUTION. SFC BOUNDARY EXTENDS NW/SE ACROSS FORECAST AREA /FA/ AT 08Z. TSRA HAD DEVELOPED ACROSS NERN IL AND NWRN IN. TSRA WERE DEVELOPING IN PART TO UPGLIDE CREATED BY GOOD LOW LEVEL FLOW PERPENDICULAR TO BOUNDARY. HEAVY RAIN IS MAIN PROBLEM WITH THESE STORMS AS PRECIP WATER IS ABOVE 1.5 INCHES. EXPECT CURRENT AREA OF TSRA TO MOVE E THIS MORNING. WILL GO LIKELY POPS EARLY IN NRN FA. WITH AN UNSTABLE ATMS...BOUNDARY MOVING BACK N...WEAK IMPULSES AT 500 MB...AND SFC OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...EXPECT SCT TSRA TO DEVELOP ACROSS ENTIRE FA TODAY. WITH THE HIGH PRECIP WATER EXPECT HEAVY RAIN TO BE A PROBLEM. WILL EXTEND FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TODAY ACROSS NRN THIRD OF FA AS EVEN A FEW TENTHS OF AN INCH OF RAIN WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS THERE. WILL MENTION HEAVY RAIN IN ALL ZONES THOUGH. COULD BE ANOTHER STRONG TEMP GRADIENT ACROSS FA TODAY WITH BOUNDARY MOVING N AND SCT TSRA. MOST GUIDANCE NUMBERS REFLECT THIS AND LOOK REASONABLE. ETA COULD BE A BIT TOO COOL AS ATMS COULD STILL WARM NICELY AS HAPPENED ON FRI. CONTINUED CHANCE OF TSRA TONIGHT WITH UNSTABLE ATMS AND WEAK IMPULSES IN UPPER ATMS. WENT NEAR GUIDANCE TEMPS IN LOW 70S GIVEN RELATIVELY HIGH DEWPOINTS. CONTINUED CHC POPS INTO NEXT WEEK BEFORE COOLER AIR FINALLY ARRIVES MID WEEK. PUT HIGHEST POPS SUN NIGHT WHEN UPPER JET STREAK COULD PROVIDE BETTER LIFT THEN. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...FLOOD WATCH NORTHERN THIRD OF CWA UNTIL 23Z. && CS
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 5:39 AM EST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 539 AM EST SAT JUN 12 2004 INZ021-028>031-035>043-049-131100- BOONE-CARROLL-CLINTON-DELAWARE-FOUNTAIN-HAMILTON-HENRY-HOWARD- MADISON-MONTGOMERY-RANDOLPH-TIPPECANOE-TIPTON-VERMILLION-WARREN- 539 AM EST SAT JUN 12 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NORTHERN THIRD OF CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY INCREASE EXISTING FLOODING PROBLEMS. A FEW SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE WABASH RIVER AND WILDCAT CREEK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE WABASH RIVER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TODAY THROUGH MONDAY. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY FLOODING OBSERVED. && MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT OUR WEBSITE... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IND INZ044>048-051>057-060>065-067>072-131100- BARTHOLOMEW-BROWN-CLAY-DAVIESS-DECATUR-GREENE-HANCOCK-HENDRICKS- JACKSON-JENNINGS-JOHNSON-KNOX-LAWRENCE-MARION-MARTIN-MONROE-MORGAN- OWEN-PARKE-PUTNAM-RUSH-SHELBY-SULLIVAN-VIGO- 539 AM EST SAT JUN 12 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WILL MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. FLOODING WILL OCCUR ALONG PARTS OF THE WABASH...WHITE...AND EAST FORK WHITE RIVERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF THE WABASH...WHITE...AND EAST FORK WHITE RIVERS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TODAY THROUGH MONDAY. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY FLOODING OBSERVED. && MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT OUR WEBSITE... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IND
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:58 UTC.
Event by event
7 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Clinton
- When
- June 12, 8:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Clinton County, Countywide
- Property damage
- $38,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.302, -86.475 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood, Fountain
- When
- June 12, 8:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Fountain County, Countywide
- Property damage
- $13,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.121, -87.242 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood, Carroll
- When
- June 12, 8:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Carroll County, Countywide
- Property damage
- $6,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.583, -86.563 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood, Boone
- When
- June 12, 8:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Boone County, Mechanicsburg
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.051, -86.469 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood, Montgomery
- When
- June 12, 8:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Montgomery County, Linden
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.040, -86.893 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood, Tippecanoe
- When
- June 12, 8:11 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Tippecanoe County, Countywide
- Property damage
- $450,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.389, -86.894 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 12 to 13, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, June 12 to 13, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 12, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, June 12, 2004
- Tornado and Hail in Tennessee, June 12 to 13, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 12, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 12, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 12, 2004
- Hail in Kansas, June 12, 2004
- Flooding in West Virginia, June 12, 2004
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 12, 2004
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 12, 2004
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, June 2004
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5407129, 5407130, 5407131, 5407204, 5407205, 5407206, 5407128.