Heavy rain across portions of central Indiana caused flooding to develop in Daviess County.
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Heavy rain across portions of central Indiana caused flooding to develop in Daviess County.
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 May 7, 6:02 PM EST, 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 702 PM EDT WED MAY 7 2008 .AVIATION... DISCUSSION FOR 00Z TAFS. ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL BRING RAIN TO ALL TAF SITES FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE NEXT 24 HOURS. CURRENTLY A SHIELD OF STEADY MODERATE RAIN IS MOVING INTO THE AREA FROM THE SOUTH. IT SHOULD OVERTAKE ALL SITES BY 02Z WITH VSBY IN THE MVFR CATEGORY. CIGS WILL BE GENERALLY IN THE IFR CATEGORY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN AXIS WILL SLOWLY SHIFT NORTHWARD OVERNIGHT SOT THAT CONDITIONS WILL GRADUALLY GET WORSE TOWARDS 09Z...THEN SOME IMPROVEMENT AFTER 09Z AT BMG. BETWEEN 12-14Z THE RAIN SHIELD SHOULD EXIT THE AREA AND LEAVE SOME MVFR CIGS AND A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS. THIS MVFR WILL PERSIST UNTIL 19-21Z WHEN MORE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE BACK IN. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 230 PM EDT WED MAY 7 2008/ DISCUSSION...TONIGHT AND THURSDAY SHORT TERM...SFC ANALYSIS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON SHOWS A CD FRONT STRETCHING FROM EASTERN WI ACRS CENTRAL IL TO SRN MO. AN AREA OF LOW PRES WAS FOUND NEAR TX/OK BOARDER. H2O VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS A STREAM OF GULF MOISTURE PUSHING ACRS THE LWR MISSISSIPPI RVR VALLEY INTO MO...IL...TN..KY AND INDIANA. DEWPOINT TEMPS ACRS THE FA HAVE REACHED THE MIDDLE 50S AND RADAR MOSAICS SHOW SCT TSRA ACRS SRN INDIANA WITH MORE DEVELOPMENT AHEAD OF THE FRONT ACRS SRN IL AND SRN MO. GOOD RAIN EVENT IN STORE FOR THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HRS AS AN UPPER LOW OVR THE SRN PLAINS WL PUSH ACRS THE OHIO VALLEY. GFS 300K ISENTROPIC SFC SHOWS VERY STRONG UPGLIDE TONIGHT ALONG VERY STEEP INCLINE. MOISTURE WILL NOT BE A PROBLEM AS MIXING RATIOS ALONG THIS SFC ARE NEAR 8 G/KG AND WE CAN ALREADY SEE THE EFFECT IN THE DEW POINTS ACRS THE AREA AND FROM THE H2O IMAGERY. GOOD 50 KNT LLJ WL BE STREAMING INTO THE OHIO VALLEY TONIGHT AIDING THE LIFT. TOPPING THIS ALL OFF...TIME HEIGHT SECTIONS SHOW GOOD FRONTOGENESIS AND LOWER LVL Q VECTOR CONVERGENCE IS QUITE IMPRESSIVE. THUS WL GO WITH CATEGORICAL POPS TONIGHT AND EARLY ON THURSDAY. BEST DYNAMICS BEGIN TO TAPER OFF ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON...HENCE WL BEGIN A DECREASING TREND IN THE POPS DURG THE AFTERNOON. AS FOR TEMPS...WL LEAN WARMER BY A DEGREE OR TWO ON LOWS GIVEN THE MOIST FLOW EXPECTED ALONG WITH DEWPOINTS ALREADY AT OR ABOVE MAVMOS LOWS. GIVEN THE EXPECTED CLOUDS AND RAIN...THE COOLER MAVMOS APPEARS TO HAVE A BETTER HANDLE THAN THE WARMER METMOS AND WL STICK CLOSE TO THE MAVMOS. LONG TERM...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY TODAYS SYSTEM EXITS STATE BY DAYBREAK FRIDAY THOUGH CONSIDERABLE CLOUD COVER SHOULD LINGER DURING DAY IN COLD ADVECTION AND MODELS WEAK SECOND WAVE MOVING ACROSS. FRIDAY MAX TEMPS NEAR GUIDANCE BUT BELOW SEASONAL NORMS. WAVES PASSAGE AND SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE TO BRING PARTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY BEFORE NEXT SYSTEM ARRIVES. MODEL RUNS HAVE BEEN WAVERING ON TRACK OF WEEKEND WEATHER SYSTEM THOUGH TIMING APPEARS TO LOCK IN TO ONSET SATURDAY NIGHT SO HAVE SLOWED PCPN START BY 12 HOURS. GFS HAS TRACKED SURFACE AND UPPER SYSTEM FURTHER NORTH ON 06Z RUN AND BACK FURTHER SOUTH ON 12Z RUN. THOUGH THIS SHOULD NOT IMPACT LIKELY POTENTIAL FOR PCPN IT DOES IMPACT FCST TEMPS AND THREAT FOR THUNDER SUNDAY. HAVE CONTINUED CURRENT FCST OF THUNDER POSSIBLE WITH SLIGHT UPWARD ADJUSTMENT ON TEMPS GIVEN LAST NIGHT SOLNS BETWEEN EURO AND GFS BEING SIMILAR AND SOMEWHAT FURTHER NORTH IN TRACK. MODELS AGREE ON LULL IN PCPN EARLY NEXT WEEK BEFORE NEXT SYSTEM MIDWEEK. HAVE COORDINATED WITH ADJACENT OFFICES IN BEGINNING NEXT PCPN TUE NIGHT. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && AVIATION...LAJ
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 708 AM EDT WED MAY 7 2008 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-081030- 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- 708 AM EDT WED MAY 7 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW WITH OVER AN INCH AN A HALF ACCUMULATED RAINFALL POSSIBLE. DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON THURSDAY AND ALSO ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT. .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) KOCH
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads have been flooded throughout the county due to heavy rainfall.
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