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River Flood Warning 15, NWS Northern Indiana

May 4, 2010Defiance County, Fulton County, Williams County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at May 4, 2010, 7:53 AM EDT for Defiance County, Fulton County, Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 4, 2010, 7:53 AM EDT (11:53 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2010, 10:22 AM EDT
In force
50 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:56 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 Tiffin River at Stryker (STRO1). The gauge peaked at 11.23 ft at May 5, 2010, 4:00 AM EDT.

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Action stage
9 ft
Minor stage
11 ft
Moderate stage
15 ft
Major stage
16.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04185000, 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 May 4, 7:02 AM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 7:02 AM EDT, 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 11:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXBlackford, Jay32 min
May 3, 8:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAllen43 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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.