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River Flood Warning 118, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 13, 2009Clay County, Greene County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this river flood warning at May 13, 2009, 10:24 AM EDT for Clay County, Greene County, Indiana. It took effect at May 14, 2009, 10:21 AM EDT. It was in force for 49 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2009, 10:24 AM EDT (14:24 UTC)
In effect from: May 14, 2009, 10:21 AM EDT
Expired: May 16, 2009, 10:54 AM EDT
In force: 49 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Clay County, IN, Greene County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Eel River at Bowling Green (BOLI3).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03360000, 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 Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 12, 7:25 PM EDT, 14 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 12, 7:25 PM EDT, 14 hours 59 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 10:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Jackson, Lawrence, Washington	7 days
May 13, 10:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Greene, Owen	6 days
May 13, 10:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox	8 days
May 13, 10:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox	8 days
May 13, 10:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike	9 days
May 13, 10:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Warren	8 days
May 13, 10:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Warren	9 days
May 13, 10:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	11 days
May 13, 10:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	10 days
May 13, 10:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Sullivan, Vigo	12 days
May 13, 3:31 PM EDT	Flood Watch	IND	Boone, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Delaware and 24 more	15 hr
May 13, 4:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Monroe	6 hr
May 13, 7:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Clay, Greene, Monroe, Morgan, Owen, Putnam	3 hr
May 13, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan	36 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.