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River Flood Warning 30, NWS Northern Indiana

April 26, 2019Wells County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Apr 26, 2019, 2:04 AM EDT for Wells County, Indiana. It took effect at Apr 26, 2019, 8:15 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 2019, 2:04 AM EDT (06:04 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 26, 2019, 8:15 AM EDT
Expired: May 2, 2019, 11:22 AM EDT
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Wells County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Wabash River at Bluffton (BLFI3).

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03323000, 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 26, 1:42 AM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 1:42 AM EDT, 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 25, 10:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 7 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 25, 9:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Grant, Jay, Wells	36 hr
Apr 25, 10:26 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	6 days
Apr 25, 10:26 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Allen	21 days
Apr 26, 7:34 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Blackford, Huntington, Jay, Wabash, Wells	71 hr
Apr 26, 7:34 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami, Wabash	47 hr
Apr 26, 7:34 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash, Whitley	45 hr
Apr 26, 10:09 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen	3 days
Apr 26, 12:29 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Grant, Miami, Wabash	40 hr
Apr 26, 4:03 PM EDT	Gale Watch	IWX		6 hr
Apr 26, 6:37 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Allen, Van Wert	27 hr
Apr 26, 7:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Putnam	33 hr
Apr 26, 7:29 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen, Paulding, Putnam	67 hr
Apr 26, 7:29 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Defiance, Henry	9 days
Apr 26, 8:33 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Allen, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert	6 hr
Apr 26, 10:09 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Putnam	52 hr
Apr 26, 2:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Allen, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert	6 hr

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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.