Alert archive / Indiana / Flood Watches in 2013
Flood Watch 1, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flood watch at Jan 12, 2013, 12:52 PM EST for 13 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio; Hillsdale County, Michigan. It took effect at Jan 12, 2013, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2013, 12:52 PM EST (17:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 12, 2013, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2013, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Flood severity
- None
All 22 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Miami County, IN, Noble County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Hillsdale County, MI, Allen County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 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 nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 325 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 943 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Jan 12, 12:22 PM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 12:22 PM EST, 30 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 12, 6:53 AM EST, 5 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 653 AM EST SAT JAN 12 2013 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-131200- 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 653 AM EST SAT JAN 12 2013 /553 AM CST SAT JAN 12 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY RAIN COULD BECOME BRIEFLY HEAVY AT TIMES LATE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO BE FOLLOWED BY A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION SPREADING FROM WEST TO EAST AS THE PRECIPITATION QUICKLY TAPERS INTO MIDDAY SUNDAY. THERE APPEARS TO BE THE POTENTIAL FOR GENERALLY LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW AND SLEET ACROSS THE REGION. SOME LIGHT FREEZING RAIN ALSO...PRIMARILY ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 69 SUNDAY. MINOR AND ISOLATED SMALL STREAM AND LOWLAND FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE DUE TO RUNOFF THIS WEEKEND. THE LARGER STEM RIVERS WILL LIKELY CREST NEXT WEEK...WITH SOME RISK FOR MINOR FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN THE MAUMEE AND WABASH RIVER BASINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... COCORAHS AND OTHER SPOTTER RAINFALL DATA WILL BE MUCH APPRECIATED THROUGH THE WEEKEND. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-131200- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 653 AM EST SAT JAN 12 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT ARE EXPECTED TODAY INTO TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WILL LIKELY PERSIST INTO EARLY MONDAY...AND MAY DEVELOP AGAIN MIDWEEK. && 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 12:01 PM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen | 6 days |
| Jan 12, 12:01 PM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, Paulding, Putnam | 4 days |
| Jan 12, 12:03 PM EST | River Flood Watch | IWX | Putnam | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flood Watches in Indiana, 2013Flood Watches in Ohio, 2013Flood Watches in Michigan, 2013Every flood watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.