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River Flood Warning 47, NWS Northern Indiana

August 12, 2026Wells County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Aug 12, 2026, 7:19 PM EDT for Wells County, Indiana. It took effect at Aug 13, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 12, 2026, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 13, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: Aug 17, 2026, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Wells County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Wabash River at Bluffton (BLFI3). The gauge peaked at 11.33 ft at Aug 16, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03323000, 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 Aug 12, 6:38 PM EDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 6:38 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 12, 5:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 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
Aug 12, 1:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Miami	39 min
Aug 12, 3:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Adams	26 min
Aug 12, 5:00 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	IWX	White	4 days
Aug 12, 5:13 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Wells	3 hr
Aug 12, 6:52 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Grant	3 hr
Aug 12, 11:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Pulaski, White	53 min
Aug 12, 11:29 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		72 min
Aug 12, 11:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Cass, Fulton, Grant, Huntington and 9 more	3 hr
Aug 12, 11:47 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Blackford, Huntington, Jay, Wabash, Wells	37 hr
Aug 12, 11:47 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Grant, Miami, Wabash	53 hr
Aug 12, 11:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	39 min
Aug 12, 11:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Whitley	33 min
Aug 12, 12:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, White	40 min
Aug 12, 12:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	23 min
Aug 12, 2:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Blackford, Cass, Grant, Jay, Miami, Pulaski and 2 more	5 hr
Aug 12, 4:35 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	9 days
Aug 12, 9:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Van Wert	32 min
Aug 12, 9:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	30 min
Aug 12, 10:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	27 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.