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River Flood Warning 23, NWS Northern Indiana

March 3, 2023Allen County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Mar 3, 2023, 10:28 AM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It took effect at Mar 4, 2023, 12:24 PM EST. It was in force for 47 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2023, 10:28 AM EST (15:28 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 4, 2023, 12:24 PM EST
Expired: Mar 6, 2023, 11:00 AM EST
In force: 47 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Allen County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point St. Joseph River (OH/IN) near Fort Wayne (ROOI3).

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04180500, 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 3, 10:10 AM EST, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 10:10 AM EST, 18 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 2, 9:27 PM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen	4 days
Mar 2, 9:48 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	IWX	Allen, Cass, Miami, Wabash, White, Whitley	23 hr
Mar 2, 9:54 PM EST	Gale Warning	IWX		24 hr
Mar 2, 10:21 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	IWX	DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte and 6 more	26 hr
Mar 3, 3:31 AM EST	Wind Advisory	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Wells	21 hr
Mar 3, 9:23 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	5 days
Mar 3, 9:23 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Noble	5 days
Mar 3, 10:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Blackford, Huntington, Jay, Wabash, Wells	52 hr
Mar 3, 10:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash, Whitley	3 days
Mar 3, 10:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	4 days
Mar 3, 10:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Carroll, Pulaski, White	21 days
Mar 3, 4:36 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Grant, Jay, Wells	6 hr
Mar 3, 10:28 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Defiance, Henry	4 days
Mar 3, 10:28 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen, Paulding, Putnam	3 days

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.