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River Flood Warning 105, NWS Northern Indiana

July 13, 2017Putnam County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Jul 13, 2017, 9:57 AM EDT for Putnam County, Ohio. It took effect at Jul 13, 2017, 4:40 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 13, 2017, 9:57 AM EDT (13:57 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 13, 2017, 4:40 PM EDT
Expired: Jul 18, 2017, 9:45 AM EDT
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Putnam County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Blanchard River at Ottawa (OTTO1). The gauge peaked at 27.60 ft at Jul 15, 2017, 1:00 PM EDT.

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 23 ft
Moderate stage: 27 ft
Major stage: 30 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04189260, 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 Jul 13, 6:56 AM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 6:56 AM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute 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
Jul 12, 9:44 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke	36 hr
Jul 13, 1:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Marshall, Starke	51 min
Jul 13, 1:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko	47 min
Jul 13, 1:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Marshall	43 min
Jul 13, 1:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Noble	34 min
Jul 13, 2:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaGrange	24 min
Jul 13, 4:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Allen, Putnam	4 hr
Jul 13, 2:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Saint Joseph	28 min
Jul 13, 2:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Hillsdale	25 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2017 Every river flood warning in 2017

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.