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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood warning at Mar 27, 2026, 6:19 AM EDT for Jay County, Indiana. It took effect at Mar 27, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2026, 6:19 AM EDT (10:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 27, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2026, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Jay County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Salamonie River at Portland (PORI3). The gauge peaked at 12.80 ft at Mar 27, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT.
- Action stage
- 9 ft
- Minor stage
- 11 ft
- Moderate stage
- 14 ft
- Major stage
- 16 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03324200, 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 Mar 27, 5:56 AM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 5:56 AM EDT, 23 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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| Mar 26, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant, Jay, Wells | 25 min |
| Mar 26, 8:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall | 37 min |
| Mar 26, 8:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Blackford, Jay | 24 min |
| Mar 26, 8:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen, Whitley | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 5:12 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 10 hr | |
| Mar 27, 3:05 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 20 hr |
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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.