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River Flood Warning 63, NWS Northern Indiana

May 18, 2019Putnam County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at May 18, 2019, 2:57 PM EDT for Putnam County, Ohio. It took effect at May 18, 2019, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 2019, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
In effect from: May 18, 2019, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired: May 19, 2019, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 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 18:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Ottawa River near Kalida (KALO1).

Action stage: 16 ft
Minor stage: 19 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 22 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04188100, 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 May 18, 1:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 1:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 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
May 18, 11:10 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Allen	5 days
May 18, 3:41 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		44 hr
May 18, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		55 min
May 18, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	46 min
May 18, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Saint Joseph	28 min
May 18, 2:57 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Defiance	17 hr
May 18, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Berrien	34 min

Nearby

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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.