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River Flood Warning 44, NWS Northern Indiana

March 19, 20205 counties in Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Mar 19, 2020, 11:39 AM EDT for 5 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Mar 20, 2020, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 19, 2020, 11:39 AM EDT (15:39 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 20, 2020, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 20, 2020, 8:14 AM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Cass County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, Miami County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Whitley County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Eel River (IN) at North Manchester (NMCI3). The gauge peaked at 9.38 ft at Mar 20, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03328000, 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 Mar 19, 7:06 AM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 7:06 AM EDT, 4 hours 33 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
Mar 18, 10:22 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	4 days
Mar 18, 10:22 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Wells	37 hr
Mar 19, 4:09 AM EDT	Lakeshore Flood Warning	IWX		49 hr
Mar 19, 4:13 AM EDT	Gale Warning	IWX		40 hr
Mar 19, 10:48 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		17 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.