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River Flood Warning 184, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this river flood warning at Aug 20, 2026, 6:31 PM EDT for Bartholomew County, Johnson County, Shelby County, Indiana. It took effect at Aug 21, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2026, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 21, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2026, 9:26 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Bartholomew County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Shelby County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Driftwood River near Edinburgh (DREI3). The gauge peaked at 11.16 ft at Aug 21, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT.
- Action stage
- 9 ft
- Minor stage
- 11 ft
- Moderate stage
- 14 ft
- Major stage
- 17 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03363000, 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 Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 20, 3:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 3:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 19, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Henry, Rush | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 8:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Delaware, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Randolph | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Warren | 100 min |
| Aug 19, 10:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Boone, Fountain, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 10:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Hamilton | 112 min |
| Aug 19, 10:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Hamilton, Marion | 107 min |
| Aug 19, 11:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Clay, Hendricks, Morgan, Parke, Putnam | 16 hr |
| Aug 19, 11:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Hancock, Johnson, Rush, Shelby | 16 hr |
| Aug 19, 11:13 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Clinton | 69 min |
| Aug 19, 11:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Boone, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Warren | 63 min |
| Aug 20, 12:15 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Clinton, Tippecanoe | 6 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:32 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Hamilton, Marion | 14 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Parke | 4 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Clay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo | 44 min |
| Aug 20, 12:49 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Madison | 7 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:56 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Clay, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion, Vigo | 4 hr |
| Aug 20, 1:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion, Vigo | 33 min |
| Aug 20, 1:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Morgan, Owen, Putnam, Sullivan and 1 more | 37 min |
| Aug 20, 1:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Morgan, Owen, Putnam | 51 min |
| Aug 20, 2:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Greene, Hendricks, Johnson, Lawrence, Marion and 3 more | 36 min |
| Aug 20, 2:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Daviess, Decatur, Greene, Jackson and 10 more | 60 min |
| Aug 20, 2:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Hendricks, Morgan, Putnam | 6 hr |
| Aug 20, 3:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur, Jennings, Rush, Shelby | 28 min |
| Aug 20, 3:44 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Tippecanoe | 34 hr |
| Aug 20, 3:44 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Fountain, Parke, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Warren | 44 hr |
| Aug 20, 4:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 4:36 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Martin | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 8:44 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Hamilton | 26 hr |
| Aug 20, 9:55 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Monroe, Morgan, Owen | 28 hr |
| Aug 20, 9:55 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Marion, Morgan | 38 hr |
| Aug 20, 9:55 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Monroe, Morgan, Owen | 8 hr |
| Aug 20, 10:00 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Clinton, Tippecanoe | 13 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:34 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence, Washington | 3 days |
| Aug 20, 2:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Rush | 12 hr |
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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.