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River Flood Watch 2, NWS Northern Indiana

April 14, 2018Williams County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood watch at Apr 14, 2018, 10:21 AM EDT for Williams County, Ohio. It took effect at Apr 15, 2018, 10:10 AM EDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 14, 2018, 10:21 AM EDT (14:21 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 15, 2018, 10:10 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 19, 2018, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point St. Joseph River (OH/IN) at Montpelier (MONO1).

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Apr 14, 6:55 AM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 6:55 AM EDT, 3 hours 26 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
Apr 13, 9:49 PM EDT	Gale Warning	IWX		28 hr
Apr 13, 9:49 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		37 hr
Apr 14, 10:21 AM EDT	River Flood Watch	IWX	Allen, DeKalb	25 hr
Apr 14, 10:21 AM EDT	River Flood Watch	IWX	Fulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke	25 hr
Apr 14, 10:21 AM EDT	River Flood Watch	IWX	Cass, Miami, Wabash, Whitley	3 days
Apr 14, 3:26 PM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	IWX	LaGrange, Steuben	23 hr
Apr 14, 10:21 AM EDT	River Flood Watch	IWX	Allen, Paulding, Putnam	5 days
Apr 14, 10:21 AM EDT	River Flood Watch	IWX	Putnam	60 hr
Apr 14, 10:21 AM EDT	River Flood Watch	IWX	Defiance, Fulton, Williams	25 hr

Nearby

River Flood Watches in Ohio, 2018 Every river flood watch in 2018

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.