Showers and thunderstorms repetitively formed and moved east-northeast across southwest Indiana, causing flooding over Daviess county.
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The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Showers and thunderstorms repetitively formed and moved east-northeast across southwest Indiana, causing flooding over 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 Sep 12, 5:20 AM EST, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 620 AM EDT FRI SEP 12 2008 .AVIATION...DISCUSSION FOR 121200Z TAF ISSUANCE. WK UPPR WV CURRENTLY ACRS NERN MO GENERATING A LRG AREA OF RAIN OVR IL AS WELL AS A ORGANIZED AREA OF CONVECTION FM SRN IND BACK INTO SRN IL. AS THIS WV PUSHES NE THRU THE LOCAL AREA LTR TDY...XPCTG FAIRLY WIDESPREAD RAIN/EMBEDDED TSTMS OVR THE TERMINALS. BASED ON ELEVATED INSTABILITY PANELS OFF THE MODELS...BEST CHCS OF CONVECTION DIRECTLY IMPACTING THE TERMINALS WL BE IN THE KIND/KBMG/KHUF AREAS...WITH LESSER CHCS ARND KLAF. AS WV LIFTS OFF TO THE NE...PCPN/CONVECTIVE THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH BY 121800Z OR SO...BUT TAIL END OF WV MAY CAUSE CONVECTIVE THREAT TO LINGER ARND KBMG FOR A COUPLE MORE HRS. XPCTG MVFR OCNL IFR CIGS/VSBYS WITH BRIEF LIFR PSBL IN THE HEAVIER SHWRS UNTIL PCPN DIMINISHES LTR TDY. SOME DRIER AIR WORKING IN BEHIND WV SHOULD ALLOW FOR LWR CIGS TO SCT OUT INTO A VFR DCK BY 122000Z OR SO. && .DISCUSSION...FRONTAL BOUNDARY WAS IN PLACE STRETCHING FROM CENTRAL WI TO CENTRAL KS. H2O IMAGERY SHOWS PLUME OF TROPICAL MOISTURE STRETCHING ACRS OK AND KS SPILLING EAST TO IL AND IN. HUMID AIR MASS HAD RETURNED TO CENTRAL INDIANA AS DEW POINTS WERE IN THE UPPER 60S. RADAR MOSAICS SHOW FIRST BATCH OF PCPN PUSHING INTO WESTERN CENTRAL INDIANA. MORE PCPN STRETCHES WEST ACRS MO AND KS. MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE TDY WL BE POPS. MODELS REMAIN IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE OVERALL PATTERN AND WL USE A BLEND. MOIST SW FLOW WL CONTINUE TODAY AND THROUGH MUCH OF THE WEEKEND. SEVERAL DISTURBANCES ARE EXPECTED TO PUSH ACRS INDIANA EMBEDDED IN THE UPPER FLOW TODAY...TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. WITH THE VERY MOIST AIR MASS IN PLACE...PCPN WL NOT BE A PROBLEM. 310K ISENTROPIC SFC SHOWS SOME LIFT TONIGHT...BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IT SHOWS A SURGE OF MIXING RATIOS OVER 8 G/KG ACRS INDIANA FOR MUCH OF THE WEEKEND. THIS IS VERY MOIST. FORECAST SOUNDINGS AND TIME HEIGHT SECTIONS SHOW A SATURATED COLUMN THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. BUFKIT SOUNDINGS ALSO SHOW VERY GOOD OMEGA TODAY AND THEN AGAIN TONIGHT. Q VECTORS ALSO SHOW PERIODS OF LOWER LVL CONVERGENCE ACRS INDIANA TODAY AND SAT. FURTHER SUPPORT FOR RAIN. BEST FORCING SHOULD BE ACRS THE NORTH AND NW PARTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA...IN AREAS CLOSEST TO THE BOUNDARY. LESSER AMOUNTS TO THE SE. PCPN TYPE SHOULD BE MAINLY SHRA THROUGH THE PD BUT AN OCCASIONAL TSRA WL STILL BE POSSIBLE. ON SUNDAY...REMNANTS OF HURRICANE IKE ARE EXPECTED TO BE PUSHING TOWARD INDIANA...BRINGING MORE CHCS FOR RAIN. AT THAT TIME...A CD FRONT WL ALSO BE APPROACHING FROM THE NW. AS TROPICAL MOISTURE SURGES NE AHEAD OF THE FRONT...ABUNDANT RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...CAN BE EXPECTED. MAV HIGH TEMPS APPEAR TO BE TOO WARM GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF PCPN EXPECTED ALONG WITH THE CLOUD COVER. WL LEAN A COUPLE DEGREES TO THE COOLER SIDE ON HIGHS. WL STICK CLOSE TO EXPECTED DEWPOINTS/WETBULBS FOR LOWS DUE TO TROPICAL AIRMASS...CLOUDS AND EXPECTED PCPN. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...JAS PUBLIC...PUMA
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 407 AM EDT FRI SEP 12 2008 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-130815- 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- 407 AM EDT FRI SEP 12 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME BUT LIGHTNING IS A HAZARD WITH ANY STORM THAT FORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MONDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...BUT FLOODING COULD BECOME A MORE SERIOUS THREAT INTO MONDAY WITH RIVER FLOODING POSSIBLE THROUGH NEXT WEEK. .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) PUMA
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:04 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Water was reported over several county roads. Radar estimates indicated that 3 to 4 inches of rain fell over the southern part of the county over a period of several hours.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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