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River Flood Warning 46, NWS Northern Indiana

July 10, 2024Elkhart County, Saint Joseph County, Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Jul 10, 2024, 7:25 AM EDT for Elkhart County, Saint Joseph County, Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan. It took effect at Jul 10, 2024, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 2024, 7:25 AM EDT (11:25 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 10, 2024, 10:00 AM EDT
Expired: Jul 19, 2024, 9:52 AM EDT
In force: 9 days
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Elkhart County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Berrien County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point St. Joseph River (MI/IN) at South Bend (SBNI3). The gauge peaked at 7.60 ft at Jul 11, 2024, 4:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 4.5 ft
Minor stage: 5.5 ft
Moderate stage: 8 ft
Major stage: 9 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04101225, 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 10, 6:58 AM EDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 6:58 AM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 4:56 AM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 2:10 AM EDT, 5 hours 15 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
Jul 9, 10:20 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	36 hr
Jul 9, 10:24 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke	5 days
Jul 9, 11:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke and 1 more	15 hr
Jul 10, 1:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall, Saint Joseph	13 hr
Jul 10, 9:21 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	71 hr
Jul 10, 10:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	DeKalb, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Whitley	4 hr
Jul 10, 1:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	White	42 hr
Jul 10, 2:07 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Saint Joseph	5 hr
Jul 10, 11:03 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Berrien, Cass	117 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2024 River Flood Warnings in Michigan, 2024 Every river flood warning in 2024

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.