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Flood Watch 3, NWS Northern Indiana

January 5, 2007Elkhart County, Indiana; Cass County, Saint Joseph County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flood watch at Jan 5, 2007, 1:36 PM EST for Elkhart County, Indiana; Cass County, Saint Joseph County, Michigan. It was in force for 63 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 2007, 1:36 PM EST (18:36 UTC)
Expired: Jan 8, 2007, 4:20 AM EST
In force: 63 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Flood severity: None

Counties Elkhart County, IN, Cass County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Jan 5, 1:04 PM EST, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 5, 1:04 PM EST, 32 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 4, 9:01 PM EST	Flood Watch	IWX	Starke	6 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Michigan, 2007 Flood Watches in Indiana, 2007 Every flood watch in 2007

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.