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River Flood Warning 96, NWS Northern Indiana

October 29, 2009LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Oct 29, 2009, 7:38 PM CDT for LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana. It took effect at Oct 31, 2009, 5:30 AM CDT. It was in force for 62 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 29, 2009, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 31, 2009, 5:30 AM CDT
Expired: Nov 2, 2009, 6:19 PM CST
In force: 62 hr
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 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Kankakee River at Davis (DAVI3). The gauge peaked at 10.78 ft at Oct 31, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT.

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 Oct 29, 6:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 29, 6:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 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
Oct 30, 4:05 AM CDT	Gale Warning	IWX		33 hr
Oct 30, 8:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	LaPorte	6 hr
Oct 30, 2:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	LaPorte	6 hr

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.