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River Flood Warning 132, NWS Indianapolis, IN

April 18, 2013Montgomery County, Parke County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this river flood warning at Apr 18, 2013, 7:51 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Parke County, Indiana. It took effect at Apr 18, 2013, 11:01 PM EDT. It was in force for 48 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 18, 2013, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 18, 2013, 11:01 PM EDT
Expired: Apr 20, 2013, 11:03 PM EDT
In force: 48 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Montgomery County, IN, Parke County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Sugar Creek (IN) at Crawfordsville (CRWI3). The gauge peaked at 15.28 ft at Apr 19, 2013, 5:00 PM EDT.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03339500, 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 Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 18, 4:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 4:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 18, 7:50 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 18, 3:12 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
312 PM EDT THU APR 18 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0311 PM     HEAVY RAIN       6 W LEBANON             40.05N  86.57W
04/18/2013  E2.00 INCH       BOONE              IN   CO-OP OBSERVER

            STARTED AROUND NOON AND ENDED AT ABOUT 3PM.

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MMB

Local storm report, Apr 18, 3:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 18, 6:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 8:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Warren	3 hr
Apr 18, 3:19 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	IND	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more	12 hr
Apr 18, 10:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Vermillion, Warren	63 min
Apr 18, 10:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion	44 min
Apr 18, 11:02 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Johnson	47 hr
Apr 18, 11:02 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Boone, Marion	36 hr
Apr 18, 11:02 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Carroll	60 hr
Apr 18, 2:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Boone, Clinton, Montgomery	5 hr
Apr 18, 4:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	6 hr
Apr 18, 5:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Clay, Parke, Putnam	3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2013 Every river flood warning in 2013

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.