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River Flood Watch 4, NWS Northern Indiana

February 26, 2011Defiance County, Fulton County, Williams County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood watch at Feb 26, 2011, 11:19 AM EST for Defiance County, Fulton County, Williams County, Ohio. It took effect at Feb 28, 2011, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 26, 2011, 11:19 AM EST (16:19 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 28, 2011, 6:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 28, 2011, 1:50 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Flood severity: None

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 16:21 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 Tiffin River at Stryker (STRO1). The gauge peaked at 11.82 ft at Mar 1, 2011, 1:00 PM EST.

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 watch 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 watch went out at Feb 26, 7:09 AM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 7:09 AM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 26, 4:24 AM EST, 6 hours 55 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
424 AM EST SAT FEB 26 2011

INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-
015-016-024-025-270930-
LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE-
PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-
MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-BERRIEN-
CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-
HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND...
MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA...
KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...
WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...ROCHESTER...WARSAW...
WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...
MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH...
NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR...
BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...NILES...
BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...
STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON...
ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA...
PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA
424 AM EST SAT FEB 26 2011 /324 AM CST SAT FEB 26 2011/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO...
NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

PERIODS OF LIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT WITH SNOW
ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND AN INCH NORTH OF ROUTE 30...AND 1 TO 2
INCHES ACROSS SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY WITH
EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2
INCHES ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY WITH LOCALLY HIGHER
AMOUNTS POSSIBLE DUE TO EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL AND WARMER
AIR SURGING AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM WILL RAPIDLY MELT THE EXISTING
SNOW COVER SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THE COMBINATION OF SATURATED
GROUND...MELTING SNOW...AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY RESULT IN
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF THAT WILL LEAD TO SIGNIFICANT RIVER FLOODING AND
LOW LAND FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX

LMZ043-046-270930-
NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI-
424 AM EST SAT FEB 26 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF
SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY NIGHT.

HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT ARE LIKELY MONDAY AND MONDAY
EVENING. SOME NORTHWEST GALE GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY
MONDAY.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...
OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 26, 11:17 AM EST	River Flood Watch	IWX	Allen, DeKalb	48 hr
Feb 26, 11:27 AM EST	River Flood Watch	IWX	Allen	52 hr
Feb 26, 11:28 AM EST	River Flood Watch	IWX	Adams, Allen	46 hr
Feb 26, 11:33 AM EST	River Flood Watch	IWX	Huntington, Wells	41 hr
Feb 26, 11:33 AM EST	River Flood Watch	IWX	Adams, Wells	41 hr
Feb 26, 4:43 PM EST	Flash Flood Watch	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more	12 hr
Feb 26, 11:21 AM EST	River Flood Watch	IWX	Allen, Paulding, Putnam	47 hr
Feb 26, 11:26 AM EST	River Flood Watch	IWX	Putnam	47 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.