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River Flood Warning 38, NWS Northern Indiana

February 11, 2020Wells County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Feb 11, 2020, 12:07 PM EST for Wells County, Indiana. It took effect at Feb 12, 2020, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 11, 2020, 12:07 PM EST (17:07 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 12, 2020, 11:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 13, 2020, 10:48 AM EST
In force: 24 hr
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 17:08 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). The gauge peaked at 9.90 ft at Feb 12, 2020, 10:00 PM EST.

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 Feb 11, 8:15 AM EST, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 8:15 AM EST, 3 hours 52 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
Feb 10, 8:20 PM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	3 days
Feb 11, 3:32 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more	63 hr
Feb 11, 4:06 PM EST	Lakeshore Flood Watch	IWX		12 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

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.