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River Flood Warning 31, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Apr 14, 2026, 10:47 AM EDT for Defiance County, Fulton County, Williams County, Ohio. It took effect at Apr 16, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2026, 10:47 AM EDT (14:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2026, 3:31 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 days
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Williams County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Tiffin River at Stryker (STRO1). The gauge peaked at 13.30 ft at Apr 23, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT.
- Action stage
- 9 ft
- Minor stage
- 11 ft
- Moderate stage
- 15 ft
- Major stage
- 16.5 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04185000, 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 Apr 14, 8:27 AM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 8:27 AM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 13, 9:50 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 10 hr | |
| Apr 14, 3:20 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 115 min | |
| Apr 14, 4:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 5:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart, Marshall, Saint Joseph | 54 min |
| Apr 14, 1:19 PM EDT | Flood Watch | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more | 43 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Pulaski, White | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Marshall, Miami, Pulaski, White | 24 min |
| Apr 14, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Miami | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Whitley | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Miami | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko, Noble | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington, Wabash, Wells | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant, Jay, Wells | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant, Jay, Wells | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Jay | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Blackford, Jay, Wells | 21 min |
| Apr 14, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 45 min |
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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.