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River Flood Warning 69, NWS Northern Indiana

May 28, 2019Adams County, Allen County, Indiana; Van Wert County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at May 28, 2019, 4:50 AM EDT for Adams County, Allen County, Indiana; Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2019, 4:50 AM EDT (08:50 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2019, 9:11 PM EDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Van Wert County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point St. Marys River at Decatur (DCRI3).

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 17 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 24 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04181500, 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 28, 4:10 AM EDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 4:10 AM EDT, 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 12:56 AM EDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 11:19 PM EDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 11:22 PM EDT, 5 hours 28 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 27, 8:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami	109 min
May 27, 8:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash	24 min
May 27, 8:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Huntington, Kosciusko, Miami, Noble, Wabash, Whitley	105 min
May 27, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington, Wells	45 min
May 27, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Wabash, Wells	45 min
May 27, 8:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Wabash, Whitley	30 min
May 27, 8:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant, Miami	23 min
May 27, 8:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Grant, Huntington, Wabash	77 min
May 27, 8:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Grant, Huntington, Wells	30 min
May 27, 8:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Adams, Allen, Wells	3 hr
May 27, 8:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Huntington, Whitley	19 min
May 27, 8:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Wabash, Whitley	63 min
May 27, 8:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Blackford, Wells	32 min
May 27, 9:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Grant, Huntington, Wells	3 hr
May 27, 9:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	30 min
May 27, 9:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Jay, Wells	27 min
May 27, 9:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Adams	22 min
May 27, 9:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Jay	23 min
May 27, 10:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Jay	30 min
May 27, 10:59 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Blackford, Huntington, Jay, Wabash, Wells	45 hr
May 27, 11:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Grant, Huntington, Wabash	6 hr
May 28, 12:01 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Adams, Allen, Wells	6 hr
May 28, 1:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Wells	68 hr
May 28, 4:50 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke	5 days
May 28, 10:13 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke	25 hr
May 28, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Grant	28 min
May 28, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Wabash	30 min
May 28, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington, Wabash, Whitley	40 min
May 28, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Miami, Wabash	31 min
May 28, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Wabash	24 min
May 28, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	29 min
May 28, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington, Wabash	51 min
May 28, 4:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Huntington, Wabash, Wells	4 hr
May 28, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	White	45 min
May 28, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	23 min
May 28, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Adams	27 min
May 28, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Adams, Wells	33 min
May 28, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Huntington, Wells	29 min
May 28, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Adams, Wells	27 min
May 28, 5:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Adams	3 hr
May 28, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Jay	35 min
May 28, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Jay	25 min
May 28, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Jay	7 min
May 28, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Wabash	35 min
May 28, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Huntington	28 min
May 28, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington, Wells	13 min
May 28, 6:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Wells	99 min
May 28, 6:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Jay	88 min
May 28, 7:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Jay	35 min
May 27, 9:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Allen, Putnam	3 hr
May 27, 10:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	25 min
May 27, 10:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Putnam	36 min
May 27, 10:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Putnam	51 min
May 28, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	35 min
May 28, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance, Henry, Putnam	41 min
May 28, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Van Wert	43 min
May 28, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Putnam	34 min
May 28, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Van Wert	32 min
May 28, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	23 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.