Flash flooding occurred in Terre Haute due to heavy rain during the early evening hours of September 8th.
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Flash flooding occurred in Terre Haute due to heavy rain during the early evening hours of September 8th.
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 Sep 8, 2:30 PM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 330 PM EDT SAT SEP 8 2007 .DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 330 PM EDT SAT SEP 8 2007/ RADAR LOOPS SHOW NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING ACROSS OUR AREA AND ESPECIALLY ACROSS ILLINOIS AND THE WEST AND NORTHWEST PARTS OF OUR AREA. SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS A STATIONARY FRONT FROM JUST SOUTH OF KAOH ACROSS THE EXTREME NORTHERN PART OF OUR FORECAST AREA TO LOW PRESSURE JUST NORTH OF KSTL. MAIN CONCERN TONIGHT WILL BE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN. BOTH WRF AND GFS MODELS BRING WELL OVER AN INCH OF RAIN ACROSS THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST PARTS OF OUR FORECAST AREA. WE CAN EXPECT THE HEAVIEST RAIN TO NEAR THE STATIONARY FRONT AND MODELS DRIFT THIS A LITTLE NORTHWARD TONIGHT AS LOW PRESSURE MOVES TOWARDS SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN. WILL MENTION HEAVY RAIN ALL AREAS NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS AREA TONIGHT. BUT WITH BOUNDARY DRIFTING A LITTLE TO THE NORTH OVERNIGHT HAVE DECIDED TO ONLY GO WITH FLOOD WATCH FOR CARROLL AND HOWARD COUNTIES AT THIS TIME. MODELS SHOWS PRECIPITABLE WATER FROM 2 TO 2.4 INCHES ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PART OF OUR AREA. SINCE STREAMS ARE IN LOW FLOW MOST OF OUR AREA HAVE DECIDED TO NOT MENTION FLOOD WATCH FOR AREAS FARTHER SOUTH...ALTHOUGH A FEW AREAS COULD SEE RAIN AMOUNTS UP TO 2 INCHES. BOTH NAM AND WRF BRING A WEAK COLD FRONT SOUTHEAST ACROSS OUR AREA BY EARLY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. MODELS THIS RUN ARE DRYING US OUT QUICKER ON SUNDAY BUT LEAN MORE WITH SLOWER GFS FOR CONSISTENCY BUT STILL A LITTLE FASTER THAN THE PREVIOUS FORECAST. FRONT WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME STALLED NEAR KENTUCKY TENNESSEE BORDER. A S/W WILL BE APPROACHING OUR AREA BY LATE MONDAY AND WILL SPREAD RAIN CHANCES NORTHEAST ACROSS MOST OF OUR AREA BY LATE MONDAY. WILL GO CLOSE TO HPC FOR MOST OF EXTENDED. MOST OF THIS PERIOD WILL BE DRY TUESDAY NIGHT AND BEYOND TO LATE DAY 6 OR 7. 12Z GFS IS A LITTLE SLOWER IN BRINING PRECIP SO WILL ONLY MENTION SLIGHT CHANCES FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. ONLY MINOR CHANGES MADE TO TEMPERATURES. GIVEN THAT WE WILL BE IN THE WARM SECTOR MOST EXCEPT FOR KLAF AREA TOWARDS MORNING WILL GO A DEGREE OR TWO ABOVE MAV/MET NUMBERS. WILL GO WITH A BLEND MOST OTHER PERIODS. && .AVIATION... DISCUSSION FOR 18Z TAFS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE QUICKLY BECOME VERY NUMEROUS THIS AFTERNOON. WILL FORECAST THE FIRST FEW HOURS ON RADAR TRENDS WHICH INDICATE HEAVY RAIN AND TIMES OF LIFR CONDITIONS AT KLAF AND IFR TO MVFR AT ALL OTHER SITES. VCTS WILL PERSIST LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH SCATTERED TSRA UNTIL 03Z IN THE SOUTH AND 05Z IN THE NORTH. THEN A RETURN TO FOG AND LOW CLOUDS WITH IFR AFTER 08Z AND POSSIBLY AGAIN SOME LIFR TOWARDS 12Z AT ALMOST ALL SITES. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT CARROLL AND HOWARD COUNTIES. && AVIATION...JOHNSON PUBLIC...JH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 529 AM EDT SAT SEP 8 2007 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-090930- CARROLL-WARREN-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-HOWARD-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY- BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-VERMILLION-PARKE- PUTNAM-HENDRICKS-MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY-VIGO-CLAY-OWEN-MORGAN- JOHNSON-SHELBY-RUSH-SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW- DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 529 AM EDT SAT SEP 8 2007 /429 AM CDT SAT SEP 8 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. .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) CP
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:49 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Trained weather spotters reported flash flooding from a thunderstorm.
A television station in Terre Haute reported there was flooding on some roads in Terre Haute.
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