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River Flood Warning 6, NWS Northern Indiana

January 13, 2013Grant County, Miami County, Wabash County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Jan 13, 2013, 7:18 AM EST for Grant County, Miami County, Wabash County, Indiana. It took effect at Jan 13, 2013, 8:18 AM EST. It was in force for 50 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2013, 7:18 AM EST (12:18 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 13, 2013, 8:18 AM EST
Expired: Jan 15, 2013, 10:20 AM EST
In force: 50 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Grant County, IN, Miami County, IN, Wabash County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:22 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 Mississinewa River at Marion (MROI3).

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03326500, 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 Jan 13, 6:50 AM EST, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 6:50 AM EST, 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 13, 6:29 AM EST, 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
629 AM EST SUN JAN 13 2013

INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-
015-016-024-025-141130-
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
629 AM EST SUN JAN 13 2013 /529 AM CST SUN JAN 13 2013/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

RUNOFF FROM SATURDAY NIGHTS RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE SOME
PONDING OF WATER IN LOW AREAS...AND MAY PUSH SMALL STREAMS AND
CREEKS OVER THEIR BANKS...ESPECIALLY IN THE WABASH AND THE
SOUTHERN MAUMEE RIVER SUB BASINS.

AS COLDER AIR PUSHES EASTWARD INTO THE AREA TODAY...THERE IS THE
POTENTIAL FOR A WINTRY MIX OF SLEET..FREEZING DRIZZLE AND
EVENTUALLY SNOW. OVERALL ACCUMULATIONS OF COMBINED FREEZING AND
FROZEN PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO BE LIGHT. ELEVATED SURFACES
AND UNTREATED ROADWAYS...ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 69 COULD
ACCRUE A THIN GLAZE OF ICE.

MINOR LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF A FEW TENTH OF AN INCH ARE
POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS MICHIGAN AND INDIANA...AND THEN
INTO NORTHWEST OHIO THROUGH THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THE LARGER STEM RIVERS WILL CREST NEXT WEEK...WITH ONGOING MINOR
FLOODING EXPECTED...ESPECIALLY IN THE MAUMEE AND WABASH RIVER
BASINS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

COCORAHS AND OTHER SPOTTER PRECIPITATION TOTALS WILL BE MUCH
APPRECIATED THROUGH MONDAY MORNING.

&&

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

LMZ043-046-141130-
NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI-
629 AM EST SUN JAN 13 2013

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WILL PERSIST TODAY AND
TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WILL PERSIST THROUGH MONDAY
AFTERNOON...AND MAY DEVELOP AGAIN WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY.

&&

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 13, 3:28 AM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
328 AM EST SUN JAN 13 2013

OHZ025-130915-
ALLEN OH-
328 AM EST SUN JAN 13 2013

...LINE OF STRONG SHOWERS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS AS IT
MOVES THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN ALLEN COUNTY IN OHIO...

AT 320 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF STRONG SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES WEST OF SPENCERVILLE
TO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPENCERVILLE TO 34 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
SPENCERVILLE...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. IN ADDITION TO BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN...LOCAL WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH MAY OCCUR WITH PASSAGE
OF THIS LINE.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  LIMA AND FORT SHAWNEE...
  CONANT...
  KEMP...
  HUME...
  SLABTOWN...YODER AND ROUSCULP...
  WESTMINSTER...

LAT...LON 4064 8410 4064 8411 4066 8411 4065 8421
      4069 8422 4068 8440 4070 8439 4087 8388
      4064 8388
TIME...MOT...LOC 0826Z 259DEG 34KT 4069 8441 4049 8443
          4029 8457

FISHER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 12, 10:16 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Miami and 2 more	12 hr
Jan 13, 4:47 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Blackford, Huntington, Jay, Wabash, Wells	3 days
Jan 13, 4:47 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	4 days
Jan 13, 10:03 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen	5 days
Jan 13, 3:28 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	47 min
Jan 13, 10:03 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Putnam	69 hr
Jan 13, 6:18 PM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Defiance, Henry	67 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.