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River Flood Warning 75, NWS Northern Indiana

June 30, 2013LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Jun 30, 2013, 10:12 AM CDT for LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana. It took effect at Jun 30, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 2013, 10:12 AM CDT (15:12 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 30, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 1, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties LaPorte County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:13 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 Kankakee River at Davis (DAVI3).

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 12 ft
Major stage: 13 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05515500, 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 Jun 29, 6:35 PM CDT, 15 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 6:35 PM CDT, 15 hours 37 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
Jun 29, 7:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Elkhart, LaGrange, Saint Joseph	81 min
Jun 29, 8:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Elkhart, LaGrange, Saint Joseph, Steuben	3 hr
Jun 30, 3:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Blackford, Grant	3 hr
Jun 30, 6:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Blackford, Grant	6 hr
Jun 30, 8:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Adams, Huntington, Wells	6 hr
Jun 30, 11:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Jay	9 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.