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River Flood Warning 55, NWS Northern Indiana

March 9, 2009Marshall County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Mar 9, 2009, 12:41 PM EDT for Marshall County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana. It took effect at Mar 10, 2009, 3:30 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 9, 2009, 12:41 PM EDT (16:41 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 10, 2009, 3:30 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 14, 2009, 9:36 PM EDT
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Marshall County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Yellow River at Plymouth (PYMI3).

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05516500, 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 Mar 9, 10:18 AM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 10:18 AM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 9, 9:59 AM EDT, 2 hours 42 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
Mar 8, 11:09 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		11 hr
Mar 8, 11:58 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	10 days
Mar 8, 11:58 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	11 days
Mar 9, 12:01 AM EDT	River Flood Watch	IWX	Carroll, Pulaski, White	11 hr
Mar 9, 12:04 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Elkhart, Grant and 9 more	7 hr
Mar 9, 4:21 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more	45 hr
Mar 9, 5:24 AM EDT	Storm Watch	IWX		10 hr
Mar 9, 6:12 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Noble	7 days
Mar 9, 11:01 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Carroll, Pulaski, White	13 days
Mar 9, 12:41 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	7 days
Mar 9, 3:42 PM EDT	Gale Watch	IWX		13 hr
Mar 8, 11:41 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Defiance	4 days

Nearby

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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.