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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Northern Indiana

January 6, 2008LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Jan 6, 2008, 7:47 PM CST for LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana. It took effect at Jan 6, 2008, 9:03 PM CST. It was in force for 103 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 6, 2008, 7:47 PM CST (01:47 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 6, 2008, 9:03 PM CST
Expired: Apr 19, 2008, 8:14 AM CDT
In force: 103 days
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Flood severity: Minor

Counties LaPorte County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Kankakee River at Davis (DAVI3). The gauge peaked at 13.61 ft at Jan 8, 2008, 8:00 PM CST.

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 12 ft
Major stage: 13 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05515500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Jan 6, 5:40 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 5:40 PM CST, 2 hours 7 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 7, 9:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen, DeKalb	9 days
Jan 7, 9:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen	7 days
Jan 7, 9:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen	6 days
Jan 7, 9:32 AM CST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	8 days
Jan 7, 9:32 AM CST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke	13 days
Jan 7, 9:32 AM CST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Carroll, Pulaski, White	12 days
Jan 7, 9:32 AM CST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	6 days
Jan 7, 10:37 AM CST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	13 days
Jan 7, 5:44 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	IWX		86 min
Jan 7, 9:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Williams	6 days
Jan 7, 9:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Defiance, Fulton, Williams	10 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2008 Every river flood warning in 2008

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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.