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River Flood Warning 45, NWS Northern Indiana

July 9, 2024LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Jul 9, 2024, 9:24 PM CDT for LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana. It took effect at Jul 10, 2024, 8:30 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 2024, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 10, 2024, 8:30 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 14, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
4 days
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties LaPorte County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Kankakee River at Davis (DAVI3). The gauge peaked at 9.60 ft at Jul 15, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT.

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Action stage
9 ft
Minor stage
10 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 05515500, 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 Jul 9, 7:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 7:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 9:20 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningIWXMarshall, Saint Joseph, Starke36 hr
Jul 9, 10:16 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXFulton, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke and 1 more15 hr
Jul 10, 12:00 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXElkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall, Saint Joseph13 hr
Jul 10, 6:25 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningIWXElkhart, Saint Joseph9 days
Jul 10, 8:21 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningIWXSaint Joseph71 hr
Jul 10, 9:16 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXDeKalb, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Whitley4 hr
Jul 10, 12:53 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningIWXWhite42 hr
Jul 10, 1:07 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningIWXCass, Saint Joseph5 hr
Jul 10, 10:03 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXBerrien, Cass117 min

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.