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River Flood Warning 17, NWS Northern Indiana

April 2, 2024Jay County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Apr 2, 2024, 4:17 AM EDT for Jay County, Indiana. It took effect at Apr 2, 2024, 8:56 AM EDT. It was in force for 37 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 2, 2024, 4:17 AM EDT (08:17 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 2, 2024, 8:56 AM EDT
Expired
Apr 3, 2024, 9:46 PM EDT
In force
37 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Jay County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Salamonie River at Portland (PORI3). The gauge peaked at 14.11 ft at Apr 2, 2024, 10:00 PM EDT.

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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 03324200, 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 Apr 2, 4:02 AM EDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 4:02 AM EDT, 15 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 1, 10:09 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXLaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke12 hr
Apr 2, 4:17 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXWells5 days
Apr 2, 4:17 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXBlackford, Huntington, Jay, Wabash, Wells65 hr
Apr 2, 4:49 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen, Huntington, Wabash54 hr
Apr 2, 5:34 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAdams, Allen21 days
Apr 2, 10:40 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXCass, Miami, Wabash21 hr
Apr 2, 10:40 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen, DeKalb21 days
Apr 2, 10:40 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXMarshall, Saint Joseph, Starke70 hr
Apr 2, 10:40 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXFulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke21 days
Apr 2, 11:30 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen5 days
Apr 2, 11:30 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen3 days
Apr 2, 1:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXJay26 min
Apr 2, 6:45 PM EDTFlood WatchIWXWhite16 hr
Apr 1, 10:22 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXDefiance, Fulton, Williams7 days
Apr 2, 11:30 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen, Paulding, Putnam58 hr
Apr 2, 11:30 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXDefiance, Henry4 days
Apr 2, 11:30 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXHenry63 hr
Apr 2, 11:30 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXPutnam4 days
Apr 2, 11:30 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXWilliams21 days

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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.