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River Flood Watch 4, NWS Northern Indiana

June 14, 2015Allen County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood watch at Jun 14, 2015, 6:14 AM EDT for Allen County, Indiana. It took effect at Jun 14, 2015, 9:17 AM EDT. It was in force for 53 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 2015, 6:14 AM EDT (10:14 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 14, 2015, 9:17 AM EDT
Expired
Jun 16, 2015, 2:36 PM EDT
In force
53 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Allen County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:16 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 St. Marys River near Fort Wayne (SASI3). The gauge peaked at 18.51 ft at Jun 17, 2015, 2:00 PM EDT.

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Action stage
12 ft
Minor stage
14 ft
Moderate stage
17 ft
Major stage
19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04182000, 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 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 river flood watch went out at Jun 14, 5:57 AM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 5:57 AM EDT, 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 8:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningIWXHuntington, Wells3 hr
Jun 13, 9:00 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXWabash2 hr
Jun 13, 9:42 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXAdams, Allen, Wells2 hr
Jun 13, 10:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningIWXAdams, Wells3 hr
Jun 13, 11:40 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIWXAdams, Huntington, Wells9 hr
Jun 14, 3:31 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXHuntington, Wells59 hr
Jun 14, 3:31 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAdams, Allen10 days
Jun 14, 10:33 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen9 days
Jun 14, 10:49 AM EDTRiver Flood WatchIWXFulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke5 days
Jun 14, 4:09 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXFulton, Kosciusko, Pulaski, White3 hr
Jun 14, 5:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXPulaski50 min
Jun 14, 5:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAdams39 min
Jun 14, 6:25 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXMarshall, Starke3 hr
Jun 13, 9:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAllen72 min
Jun 14, 12:17 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXAllen, Putnam, Van Wert3 hr
Jun 14, 5:38 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen, Paulding, Putnam7 days
Jun 14, 5:38 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen, Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam3 days
Jun 14, 3:01 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIWXAllen, Putnam, Van Wert24 hr

Nearby

River Flood Watches in Indiana, 2015Every river flood watch in 2015

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.