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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this river flood warning at Aug 16, 2016, 8:11 AM CDT for Lake County, Newton County, Indiana. It took effect at Aug 16, 2016, 2:41 PM CDT. It was in force for 18 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2016, 8:11 AM CDT (13:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 16, 2016, 2:41 PM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2016, 10:33 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 days
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Lake County, IN, Newton County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Kankakee River at Shelby (SLBI3).
- Action stage
- 9.5 ft
- Minor stage
- 10.5 ft
- Moderate stage
- 11.5 ft
- Major stage
- 12.5 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05518000, 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 Chicago, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 16, 6:43 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 6:43 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 15, 11:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LOT | Iroquois, Kankakee | 21 hr |
| Aug 15, 8:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LOT | Lake, Porter | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 3:17 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | LOT | Lake, Newton | 6 days |
| Aug 16, 8:15 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | LOT | Porter | 4 days |
| Aug 16, 8:15 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | LOT | Jasper, Porter | 5 days |
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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.