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Flood Watch 2, NWS Northern Indiana

April 3, 202614 counties in Indiana; 4 counties in Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this flood watch at Apr 3, 2026, 2:17 PM EDT for 14 counties in Indiana; 4 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Apr 3, 2026, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 2026, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 3, 2026, 11:00 PM EDT
Expired: Apr 4, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Flood severity: None

Counties Allen County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 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 nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 276 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Apr 3, 1:44 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 1:44 PM EDT, 33 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
Apr 2, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko	30 min
Apr 2, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Miami, Noble, Wabash and 1 more	39 min
Apr 2, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Miami	30 min
Apr 2, 8:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	DeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben	23 min
Apr 2, 8:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Grant	38 min
Apr 2, 9:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	DeKalb, Steuben	54 min
Apr 2, 9:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		90 min
Apr 2, 9:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	48 min
Apr 2, 10:00 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		7 hr
Apr 2, 10:35 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Pulaski	9 days
Apr 2, 10:51 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	4 days
Apr 2, 10:51 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Carroll, Pulaski, White	21 days
Apr 2, 11:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		59 min
Apr 3, 12:39 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		51 min
Apr 3, 4:39 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	42 hr
Apr 3, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami	43 min
Apr 3, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant, Huntington, Wabash	38 min
Apr 3, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami, Wabash	25 min
Apr 3, 7:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Grant, Huntington	34 min
Apr 3, 1:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Berrien	45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.