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River Flood Warning 26, NWS Northern Indiana

April 21, 2019Putnam County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Apr 21, 2019, 1:31 AM EDT for Putnam County, Ohio. It took effect at Apr 21, 2019, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 54 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 21, 2019, 1:31 AM EDT (05:31 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 21, 2019, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Apr 23, 2019, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
54 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Putnam County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:33 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 Blanchard River at Ottawa (OTTO1). The gauge peaked at 23.17 ft at Apr 21, 2019, 11:00 AM EDT.

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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 Apr 20, 7:21 PM EDT, 6 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 7:21 PM EDT, 6 hours 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 20, 8:00 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAdams, Allen4 days
Apr 21, 1:31 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAdams, Wells68 hr
Apr 21, 7:44 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXBlackford, Huntington, Jay, Wabash, Wells6 hr
Apr 20, 8:00 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen, Paulding, Putnam28 hr
Apr 20, 8:00 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXDefiance, Henry3 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2019Every river flood warning in 2019

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.