Flooding occurred along portions of the Wabash River due to heavy rain that fell across central Indiana.
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The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Flooding occurred along portions of the Wabash River due to heavy rain that fell across central Indiana.
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 Dec 29, 6:25 AM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 625 AM EST SAT DEC 29 2007 .AVIATION...DISCUSSION FOR 12Z TAFS. MVFR CELINGS WERE THE RULE ACROSS INDIANA AND MOST OF ILLINOIS THIS MORNING. SATELLITE SHOWED SOME CLEARING ACROSS EASTERN MISSOUR. HOWEVER AT THE PRESENT RATE OF CLEARING IT SHOULD NOT REACH WESTERN INDIANA UNTIL MID AFTERNOON IN WESTERN INDIANA AND TOWARDS EVENING ELSEWHERE. MODELS SHOW HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WILL BUILD IN ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY BY LATE TODAY...SO LOW CLOUDS SHOULD SCATTERED OUT LATE TODAY. MODEL SOUNDINGS INDICATE INCREASING MID/HIGH CLODUS TONIGHT. && .DISCUSSION... WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS UPR LOW OVR LAKE SUPERIOR...UPR RDG OVR THE SERN US...AND ANOTHER UPR TROF DIGGING INTO THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST. SKIES ACRS THE FA WERE CLOUDY WITH TEMPS IN THE LOW TO MIDDLE 30S AND DEWPTS IN THE MIDDLE TO UPR 20S AND WINDS OUT OF THE W AT 8-12KTS. FCST FOCUS IS ON TEMPS/SKY COVER THRU THE WEEKEND AND POPS IN THE EARLY WORKWEEK. MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT AND WL USE A BLEND. HIGH PRES BLDS IN TODAY. CLDS WL SLOWLY MV OUT STARTING IN THE SW AND FINALLY IN THE NE. COLD ADVECTION WL KEEP TEMPS FROM CLIMBING MUCH. WENT FOR HIGHS A COUPLE DEGREES COLDER THAN MOS BLEND BASED ON H8 TEMPS. HI PRES OVRHED WL KEEP SKIES PTLY CLDY FOR A BIT TONIGHT. WAA KICKS IN NR MORNING SO CLDS WL START TO ROLL BACK IN. WENT FOR MAV/MET BLEND OF LOWS IN THE UPR 20S. MAV NUMBERS FOR SUNDAY HIGHS /UPR 40S/ LOOK A LITTLE TOO OPTIMISTIC. JUST DON/T SEE THAT MUCH OF A REBOUND WITH H8 TEMPS NOT MUCH WARMER THAN TODAY AND SOME CLDS FORMING ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE HIGH WITH LIFT FROM A WEAK TROF AXIS UPSTREAM. WL STICK CLOSER TO THE COOLER MET NUMBERS IN THE LOW 40S. SUN NT WITH WAA AND SOME CLDS HAVE GONE WITH MAV/MET BLEND FOR LOWS AROUND 30...A COUPLE DEGREES WARMER THAN PREVIOUS NIGHT. MONDAY...A CLIPPER SYSTEM COMES THRU THE AREA. HAVE GONE WITH CHC POPS ACRS THE FA WITH A RAIN/SNOW MIX N AND RAIN S BASED ON FCST HIGHS AND H8 TEMPS. DROPPED MAV NUMBERS A BIT AS FORCING IS NOT THAT IMPRESSIVE AND MET IS DRIER. FOR HIGHS AGAIN USED A MAV/MET BLEND. MONDAY NIGHT KEPT CHC POPS E TAPERING TO SLT W AS LOW MVS NE TO UP OF MI AND WITH COLD ADVECTION HAVE GONE ALL SNOW. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES MADE TO THE EXTENDED. SLIGHT TWEAKS TO TEMPS FOR BETTER COLLAB. ALSO ADDED SOME CHC SNOW NRN FA ON TUE NT AS CONDS SUCH AS TEMP CONTRAST AND WIND DIRECTION LOOK FAVORABLE FOR SOME LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && PUBLIC...CP AVIATION...JH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 449 AM EST SAT DEC 29 2007 INZ021-030-031-036>042-045>049-052-054>057-062>065-068>072-301000- CARROLL-CLINTON-HOWARD-MONTGOMERY-BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON- DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-PUTNAM-HENDRICKS-MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY-CLAY- MORGAN-JOHNSON-SHELBY-RUSH-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR- DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 449 AM EST SAT DEC 29 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. FOR TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT WIND CHILL READINGS FROM THE SINGLE DIGITS TO BELOW ZERO ARE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) INZ028-029-035-043-044-051-053-060-061-067-301000- WARREN-TIPPECANOE-FOUNTAIN-VERMILLION-PARKE-VIGO-OWEN-SULLIVAN- GREENE-KNOX- 449 AM EST SAT DEC 29 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE WABASH RIVER. READINGS ABOVE BANKFULL WILL CONTINUE INTO THE NEW YEAR. FOR TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT WIND CHILL READINGS FROM THE SINGLE DIGITS TO BELOW ZERO ARE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE)
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including near Lafayette, due to heavy rain. Flooding continued into January.
Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Warren County due to heavy rain.
Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Fountain County, including near Covington, due to heavy rain. Flooding continued into January.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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