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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Northern Indiana

February 22, 2023Allen County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Feb 22, 2023, 3:40 PM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It took effect at Feb 22, 2023, 8:33 PM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 22, 2023, 3:40 PM EST (20:40 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 22, 2023, 8:33 PM EST
Expired: Feb 23, 2023, 9:00 AM EST
In force: 12 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 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Spy Run Creek at Ft. Wayne Childrens Zoo (SPYI3).

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 12 ft
Major stage: 13 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04182808, 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 22, 2:42 PM EST, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 2:42 PM EST, 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 22, 2:18 PM EST, 1 hour 22 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 21, 9:35 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		24 hr
Feb 22, 6:01 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Jay	29 min
Feb 22, 12:26 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Wells	3 hr
Feb 22, 2:18 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Miami	27 min
Feb 22, 3:42 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko and 12 more	5 hr
Feb 22, 10:12 AM EST	River Flood Warning	IWX	Defiance, Fulton, Williams	20 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2023 Every river flood warning in 2023

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.