Flash Flood, Sullivan
- When
- January 17, 4:49 AM EST to 11:00 AM EST
- Where
- Sullivan County, 13 mi W of Sullivan
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.100, -87.667
A levee failed along the Wabash River.
Flash Flood in Indiana, January 17, 2005
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 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 Jan 17, 3:15 AM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 3:15 AM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
315 AM EST MON JAN 17 2005
.DISCUSSION...NWLY UPPR FLOW XPCTD OVR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS A
COLD UPPR VORTEX DROPS INTO THE SERN CANADA/NEW ENGLAND AREA. NEXT
SHORT WV TROF PROGGED TO DIG SEWD INTO THE GRTLKS TUES NIGHT. AT THE
SFC...LRG HI PRES WL SETTLE SEWD INTO THE AREA TONIGHT...WHILE LO
PRES ASSOCIATED WITH NEXT SYS MOVS THRU THE GRTLKS TUES NIGHT AND
WED. MODELS IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE MAIN DETAILS. FCST
FOCUS WL CENTER ON POPS IN THE LTR PDS...ALONG WITH TEMPS.
IN THE NR TERM...WL CONT THE FLOOD WATCHES FOR PSBL LEVEE BREACHES
IN VIGO AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES. PLAN ON LETTING THE WIND CHILL
ADVISORY EXPIRE AT 13Z...AS MOST PLACES HV DROPPED BLO MIN WIND
CRITERIA. OTRW...APPEARS ANOTHER EMBEDDED MID LVL SPEED MAX SHOULD
CUT THRU THE ERN LKS TODAY. NET EFFECT WL BE SOME MORE CLD
COVER/PSBL FLURRIES OVR THE NE ZONES TODAY INTO EARLY THIS EVENING.
SOME FLURRIES OFF OF LK MI COULD ALSO DRFT INTO THE NE ZONES AS
WELL.
IN THE LTR PDS...WX SHOULD BE QUIET UNTIL TUES NIGHT...WHEN NEXT SYS
BEGINS TO AFFECT THE AREA. AT THIS PT...MOSITURE/LIFT PARAMETERS
APPEAR SUFFICIENT ENOUGH TO CONT CHC POPS FOR SNOW TUES NIGHT/WED.
CONSIDERING LO LVL THICKNESSES AND SNOW COVER...WL LOWER TO NGM MOS
GUIDANCE HIGHS FOR TODAY ABOUT 3-5 DEGS. TONIGHT SHOULD BE THE
COLDEST NIGHT WITH CENTER OF SFC HI ACRS THE AREA. WL LOWER THE
GUIDANCE MINS TONIGHT ABOUT 5-10 DEGS OVR THE CENTRAL CWA WHERE SNOW
COVER IS THE DEEPEST...AND 3-5 DEGS ELSEWHERE. MOS HIGHS ON TUES
LOOK OK FOR NOW. XPCTG TEMPS TO SLOWLY RISE TUES NIGHT UNDER WAA.
&&
.IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.IN...WIND CHILL ADIVISORY TIL 13Z MON ALONG AND N OF A VIGO-RUSH
COUNTY LN.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR VIGO COUNTY TIL 00Z TUES.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SULLIVAN COUNTY TIL 12Z TUES.
&&
JASHazardous weather outlook, Jan 16, 3:20 PM EST, 13 hours 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 320 PM EST SUN JAN 16 2005 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-171100- BARTHOLOMEW-BOONE-BROWN-CARROLL-CLAY-CLINTON-DAVIESS-DECATUR- DELAWARE-FOUNTAIN-GREENE-HAMILTON-HANCOCK-HENDRICKS-HENRY-HOWARD- JACKSON-JENNINGS-JOHNSON-KNOX-LAWRENCE-MADISON-MARION-MARTIN-MONROE- MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-OWEN-PARKE-PUTNAM-RANDOLPH-RUSH-SHELBY-SULLIVAN- TIPPECANOE-TIPTON-VERMILLION-VIGO-WARREN- 320 PM EST SUN JAN 16 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING IS EXPECTED ALONG THE MAJOR RIVERS...INCLUDING THE WHITE...EAST FORK OF THE WHITE...AND THE WABASH. IN ADDITION...FLOOD WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF VIGO AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES DUE TO POTENTIAL LEVEE BREACHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SUNDAY RIVER FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ALONG THE MAJOR RIVERS THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. IN ADDITION...FLOOD WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF VIGO COUNTY UNTIL MONDAY EVENING...AND UNTIL TUESDAY MORNING FOR SULLIVAN COUNTY DUE TO POTENTIAL LEVEE BREACHES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT OUR WEBSITE... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IND
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:46 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Heavy Snow in New York, January 17 to 18, 2005
- Flooding in Washington, January 17 to 20, 2005
- High Wind in Montana, January 17 to 18, 2005
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Montana, January 17 to 18, 2005
- Winter Storm in Maine, January 17, 2005
- Winter Weather in Oregon, January 17, 2005
- High Wind in Alaska, January 17 to 18, 2005
- Flood in Michigan, January 17 to 20, 2005
- Winter Storm in Washington, January 17 to 18, 2005
- Ice Storm in Washington, January 17, 2005
- Winter Storm in Maine, January 17, 2005
- Winter Weather in Washington, January 17 to 18, 2005
More
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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: 5434420.