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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Northern Indiana

January 24, 2010LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Jan 24, 2010, 10:06 AM CST for LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana. It took effect at Jan 24, 2010, 9:02 PM CST. It was in force for 69 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 24, 2010, 10:06 AM CST (16:06 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 24, 2010, 9:02 PM CST
Expired
Jan 27, 2010, 6:25 PM CST
In force
69 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 16:09 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 Kankakee River at Davis (DAVI3). The gauge peaked at 10.82 ft at Jan 25, 2010, 5:00 PM CST.

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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 24, 5:40 AM CST, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 5:40 AM CST, 4 hours 26 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 23, 9:13 PM CSTRiver Flood WatchIWXStarke13 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2010Every river flood warning in 2010

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.