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River Flood Watch 1, NWS Northern Indiana

February 28, 2017Starke County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood watch at Feb 28, 2017, 7:58 AM CST for Starke County, Indiana. It took effect at Mar 2, 2017, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 28, 2017, 7:58 AM CST (13:58 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 2, 2017, 3:00 AM CST
Expired: Mar 5, 2017, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Starke County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 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 Feb 28, 5:53 AM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 5:53 AM CST, 2 hours 5 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
Feb 28, 3:02 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		54 hr
Feb 28, 4:24 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	36 min
Feb 28, 4:48 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Miami, Wabash	27 min
Feb 28, 5:13 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen, DeKalb, Whitley	47 min
Feb 28, 5:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	DeKalb, Noble, Whitley	34 min
Feb 28, 5:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Huntington, Whitley	46 min
Feb 28, 5:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	DeKalb, Steuben	30 min

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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.