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River Flood Warning 59, NWS Northern Indiana

April 24, 2013Allen County, Huntington County, Wabash County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Apr 24, 2013, 1:38 AM EDT for Allen County, Huntington County, Wabash County, Indiana. It took effect at Apr 24, 2013, 2:06 PM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 24, 2013, 1:38 AM EDT (05:38 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 24, 2013, 2:06 PM EDT
Expired: Apr 24, 2013, 11:05 PM EDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Allen County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Wabash County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:41 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 Little River near Huntington (LRHI3). The gauge peaked at 13.59 ft at Apr 24, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03324000, 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 Apr 24, 1:30 AM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 1:30 AM EDT, 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 8:22 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	4 days
Apr 23, 9:37 PM EDT	River Flood Watch	IWX	Carroll, White	48 hr
Apr 23, 11:36 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen	41 hr
Apr 24, 12:23 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Fulton, Grant and 11 more	12 hr
Apr 24, 1:38 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen	4 hr
Apr 24, 5:25 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash, Whitley	40 hr
Apr 24, 8:26 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami, Wabash	15 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.