River Flood Warning 53, NWS Northern Indiana

Issued

Aug 20, 2026, 12:19 AM EDT (04:19 UTC)

Expired

Aug 21, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT

In force

32 hr

Issued by

NWS Northern Indiana

Area

Storm-based polygon

Flood severity

Minor

County Wells County, IN

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:22 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.

Written for the forecast point Wabash River at Bluffton (BLFI3). The gauge peaked at 10.18 ft at Aug 20, 2026, 5:00 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.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 19, 2:06 PM EDT, 10 hours 13 minutes earlier.

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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.