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River Flood Warning 42, NWS Northern Indiana

June 12, 2026LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Jun 12, 2026, 10:10 AM CDT for LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Starke County, Indiana. It took effect at Jun 12, 2026, 12:43 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2026, 10:10 AM CDT (15:10 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 12, 2026, 12:43 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 12, 2026, 9:08 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties LaPorte County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:13 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 river

Written for the forecast point Kankakee River at Davis (DAVI3). The gauge peaked at 9.48 ft at Jun 13, 2026, 12:00 AM CDT.

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Action stage
9 ft
Minor stage
10 ft
Moderate stage
12 ft
Major stage
13 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05515500, 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 Jun 12, 5:09 AM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 5:09 AM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 7:48 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningIWX42 min
Jun 11, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatIWXPulaski, White45 min
Jun 11, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXLaPorte40 min
Jun 11, 8:12 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatIWXLaPorte, Starke48 min
Jun 11, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXLaPorte, Saint Joseph38 min
Jun 11, 8:38 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningIWX67 min
Jun 11, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXCass, Fulton, Marshall, Miami, Pulaski, Starke and 1 more47 min
Jun 11, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatIWXLaPorte, Saint Joseph28 min
Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatIWXElkhart, Saint Joseph45 min
Jun 11, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXCass, Fulton, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash22 min
Jun 11, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXKosciusko, Marshall19 min
Jun 11, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXGrant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash, Whitley41 min
Jun 11, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatIWXElkhart, Saint Joseph39 min
Jun 11, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall23 min
Jun 11, 9:26 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXHuntington, Wabash34 min
Jun 11, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXKosciusko16 min
Jun 11, 9:41 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXElkhart, LaPorte, Saint Joseph3 hr
Jun 11, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatIWXDeKalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, Noble, Steuben, Whitley45 min
Jun 11, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatIWXElkhart, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben41 min
Jun 11, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatIWXAdams, Allen, Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay and 2 more40 min
Jun 11, 9:51 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedIWXElkhart, LaGrange20 min
Jun 11, 10:03 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXAdams, Jay, Wells27 min
Jun 11, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatIWXLaGrange, Steuben42 min
Jun 11, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatIWXAdams, Allen, Jay41 min
Jun 11, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, DeKalb, Steuben47 min
Jun 11, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatIWXWilliams58 min
Jun 11, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Henry, Putnam33 min
Jun 11, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Williams40 min
Jun 11, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton33 min
Jun 11, 9:13 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXCass47 min
Jun 11, 9:42 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXCass, Saint Joseph48 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.