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River Flood Warning 93, NWS Northern Indiana

April 13, 2008Elkhart County, Indiana; Branch County, Saint Joseph County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Apr 13, 2008, 6:01 PM EDT for Elkhart County, Indiana; Branch County, Saint Joseph County, Michigan. It was in force for 41 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 13, 2008, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2008, 11:10 AM EDT
In force: 41 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Flood severity: Minor

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

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point St. Joseph River (MI/IN) at Three Rivers (TRVM4).

Action stage: 6 ft
Minor stage: 7 ft
Moderate stage: 9 ft
Major stage: 11 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04097500, 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 Apr 12, 7:26 PM EDT, 22 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 7:26 PM EDT, 22 hours 35 minutes before

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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.