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River Flood Warning 32, NWS Northern Indiana

July 27, 2025Jay County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Jul 27, 2025, 4:35 PM EDT for Jay County, Indiana. It took effect at Jul 27, 2025, 5:38 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 2025, 4:35 PM EDT (20:35 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 27, 2025, 5:38 PM EDT
Expired
Jul 27, 2025, 10:16 PM EDT
In force
5 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 20:39 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 11.30 ft at Jul 27, 2025, 6:00 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 Jul 26, 7:30 PM EDT, 21 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 7:30 PM EDT, 21 hours 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 8:04 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXBlackford, Jay3 hr
Jul 26, 8:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXJay33 min
Jul 26, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXJay31 min
Jul 27, 1:44 AM EDTHeat AdvisoryIWXAdams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more19 hr
Jul 27, 12:27 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXJay51 min
Jul 27, 12:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXJay28 min
Jul 27, 1:17 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIWXJay9 hr
Jul 27, 2:24 PM EDTHeat AdvisoryIWXAdams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more31 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2025Every river flood warning in 2025

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.