Flooding continued along portions of the Wabash River from February into March.
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The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Flooding continued along portions of the Wabash River from February into March.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 28, 9:30 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 930 PM EST WED FEB 28 2007 .SHORT TERM UPDATE.../TONIGHT/ LATEST UPPER AIR SHOWS AN ELONGATED 850MB LOW FROM NEAR OMAHA NE. WITH MAIN 850MB LOW ACROSS SOUTHERN KS. UPPER AIR AND PROFILER SITES SUGGEST THAT THE 850MB WARM FRONT MAY EXTEND FROM JUST NORTH OF SPI IL. TO AROUND LAF OR ACROSS THE FAR NORTHERN PARTS OF OUR CWA. 850MB DEWPOINTS OF 5 TO 10C WERE RACING NORTH WITHIN 50-60KT LLJ. SFC LOW WAS ACROSS SOUTHERN KS WITH MAIN WARM FRONT JUST SOUTH OF THE OH RIVER. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWED AN INITIAL UPPER WAVE MOVING ACROSS IOWA WHILE THE MAIN WAVE WAS EMERGING OUT OF THE CENTRAL ROCKIES. REST OF TONIGHT...STRONG 900-800MB LAYER THETAE ADVECTION WITHIN THE LLJ SHOULD ACT TO PRODUCE SCT SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THE BEST CHCS MAY STAY NW OF THE CWA NEAR AND NW OF THE 850MB FRONT WHICH SHOULD MOVE NORTH OF THE CWA OVERNIGHT. I WILL KEEP THE LIKELY POPS HOWEVER GIVEN THE ABOVE FORCING AND INCREASING UPPER DIVERGENCE. AIR TEMPS APPEAR TO HAVE STABILIZED AND SHOULD STAY STEADY OF RISE SLOWLY OVERNIGHT. THURS...LATEST MODELS SUGGEST THAT THE COLD FRONT AND GREATEST CHC FOR CONVECTION AHEAD OF THE FRONT/SVR THREAT SHOULD STILL OCCUR IN THE 18Z TO 00Z TIME FRAME WITH GREATER RISK OF SVR SOUTH OF I-70. && .AVIATION...DISCUSSION FOR 010000Z TAF ISSUANCE. EARLIER BAND OF MXD PCPN HAS MOVD OFF TO THE NE. APPEARS ORGANIZED CONVECTION MAY DVLP OVR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HRS IN THE AREA OF ERN KS/WRN MO...AND MODELS PROG THE REMNANTS OF THAT SYS INTO THE LOCAL AREA VRY LT TONIGHT. CURRENT THINKING IS THAT SYS WL BEGIN TO AFFECT THE WRN TERMINALS IN THE 010800Z-011100Z TIME FRAME. AT THIS PT...APPEARS THERE IS ENOUGH ELEVATED INSTABILITY FOR SOME EMBEDDED THUNDER. ACTVTY XPCTD TO CONT BYD 011200Z. GENERALLY VFR CONDS WITH CIGS ABV 050/VSBYS P6SM UNTIL PCPN BEGINS...THEN AREAS MVFR CIGS/VSBYS PROBABLE. OTHER CONCERN IS LLWS. WND PROGS SUGGEST 850MB JET ON THE ORDER OF 45-50KTS WL BE MOVG INTO THE LOCAL AREA OVR THE NEXT FEW HRS AND LAST THRU THE NIGHT. MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOW A RATHER PRONOUNCED INVERSION WITH THE TOP NR 900MB. WNDS AT THE TOP OF THE INVERSION PROGGED TO BE ARND 40-45KTS...BUT WNDS SPEEDS THROUGHOUT THE INVERSION INDICATE A MORE GRADU DROP OFF TOWARDS THE SFC THAN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE FOR A SIG WS THREAT. DOESN/T LOOK LIKE WS CRITERIA WL BE MET...HOWEVER IF SFC WNDS DECOUPLE A LTL MORE THAN XPCTD... THAT COULD CHANGE. && .SHORT TERM.../TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/ FORECAST FOCUS IS ON RAIN/TSRA EVENT TONIGHT AND THURSDAY WITH ALL ITS ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS. AT 18Z A WEAK UPPER WAVE COMBINED WITH WARM ADVECTION AT 850 WAS PRODUCING A BAND OF SHRA ACROSS THE NORTHERN FORECAST AREA /FA/. WARMER AIR LURKED JUST SOUTH OF THE FA WITH TEMPS WELL INTO THE 50S JUST S OF THE OH RIVER...WITH TEMPS HANGING ON IN THE MID 30S ACROSS NRN FA. MODELS WERE IN DECENT AGREEMENT WITH THE MAJOR PLAYERS IN UPCOMING EVENT. USED A BLEND. CURRENT BAND OF PRECIP SHOULD EXIT THE FA AROUND 00Z. DURING THE NIGHT...STRONG 850 JET WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA. A SURFACE WARM FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN INDIANA BY 12Z. COMBINE THE 850 JET...WARM FRONT...APPROACHING UPPER SYSTEM...AND AMPLE MOISTURE FLOWING IN FROM THE SOUTH WILL LEAD TO RAIN DEVELOPING ACROSS THE FA BY 12Z. BEST CHANCE OF RAIN WILL BE AFTER MIDNIGHT WHEN MOST INGREDIENTS COME TOGETHER. WILL GO CATEGORICAL POPS WESTERN 2/3 OF THE FA WITH LIKELY POPS ACROSS THE EAST TO ACCOUNT FOR TIMING. TEMPERATURES WILL BE TRICKY AS LOWS WILL BE REALIZED EARLY THIS EVENING. AS NOTED ABOVE...COLD AIR ACROSS NORTHERN FA IS STUBBORN...SO WILL GO A LITTLE COOLER THAN GUIDANCE HERE. ACROSS SOUTHERN FA...WHERE WARMER AIR IS ALREADY FLOWING IN...WENT NEAR GUIDANCE. ON THURSDAY...INGREDIENTS ARE COMING TOGETHER FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER EVENT ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. BASED ON HOW WARM THINGS ARE TODAY ACROSS AREAS TO OUR SOUTH...SEE NO REASON WHY TEMPERATURES WILL NOT GET WARM TOMORROW GIVEN STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW BEHIND WARM FRONT. THIS WILL LEAD TO LOW CAPE VALUES. THIS INSTABILITY COMBINED WITH STRONG WINDS NOT FAR ABOVE THE SURFACE /DEEP VERTICAL SHEAR/ MAY LEAD TO A SQUALL LINE WITH DAMAGING WINDS JUST AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. BASED ON CURRENT MODEL DATA LOOKS LIKE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE ACROSS THE FA WILL BE FROM 18-24Z. BEFORE THE COLD FRONT...THERE WILL BE SHOWERS AS WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH ACROSS FA. THERE MAY BE A LULL IN WARM SECTOR BEFORE COLD FRONT BRINGS THE SQUALL LINE. WILL GO CATEGORICAL POPS BUT WORD AS OCCASIONAL TO INDICATE POTENTIAL DRY PERIODS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS MAY REACH AN INCH. THE WARM TEMPERATURES WILL HELP MELT THE SNOWPACK ACROSS THE NORTHERN FA. THE RAINFALL PLUS THE SNOWMELT MAY LEAD TO FLOODING ISSUES. THE RAINFALL MAY INCREASE FLOODING PROBLEMS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN FA AS WELL. AFTER COORDINATION WITH SURROUNDING OFFICES HAVE DECIDED TO GO WITH A FLOOD WATCH FOR THURSDAY. AS MENTIONED EARLIER WILL GO WITH WARMER TEMPERATURES ON THU. ENDED UP BEING WARMER THAN MAV MOST AREAS. PRECIP WILL END BEHIND FROPA THU EVE. SOME WRAP-AROUND PRECIP MAY MOVE BACK INTO THE NRN FA THU NIGHT. BY THEN TEMPERATURES WILL BE COLD ENOUGH FOR PRECIP TO BE SNOW. WILL GO WITH SLIGHT CHC POPS. ON FRI UPPER LOW AND TROF WILL REMAIN N OF THE FA AND SHOULD PROVIDE NRN FA WITH CHANCE POPS. MODELS ARE ALL HINTING AT LOWER MOISTURE ACROSS SOUTHERN FA SO HAVE WENT DRY THERE ON FRI. ON SATURDAY COLDER AIR FLOWS INTO THE FA AS UPPER TROF MOVES ACROSS. WENT WITH CHANCE POPS ALL AREAS. SNOW WILL BE THE PRECIP TYPE. WINDS WILL BE RELATIVELY STRONG STARTING THU NIGHT AND CONTINUING AT TIMES INTO SATURDAY WHEN THE COLDER AIR FLOWS IN. && .LONG TERM.../SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/ WILL KEEP LINGERING FLURRIES INTO SATURDAY NIGHT AS GFS AND DGEX STILL HAS A LOT OF LOW LEVEL RH ACROSS US WITH A COLD NORTHWEST FLOW. THEN QUIET WEATHER WILL BE THE RULE THE FIRST HALF OF NEXT WEEK. THE STRONG UPPER LOW OVER SOUTHERN QUEBEC SATURDAY NIGHT WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTH ATLANTIC BY MID WEEK. LONG RANGE MODELS SHOW A MORE ZONAL FLOW DEVELOPING EARLY TO MID PART OF NEXT WEEK. THUS TEMPERATURES SHOULD MODERATE SOME BY NEXT TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. GFS BRINGS A WEAK UPPER DISTURBANCE EAST ACROSS OUR REGION TUESDAY. AIRMASS SHOULD BE TOO DRY FOR PRECIPITATION...AND WILL FOLLOW SUIT WITH NCEP. HOWEVER I BELIEVE THERE MAY BE SOME CLOUDS WITH THIS SYSTEM SO WILL GO AT LEAST PARTLY CLOUDY DURING THAT PERIOD. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF CENTRAL INDIANA FROM 12Z THU TO 00Z FRI. && AVIATION...JAS SHORT TERM...CS SHORT TERM UPDATE...CO LONG TERM...JH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 347 PM EST WED FEB 28 2007 INZ028-029-035-043-044-051>053-060-061-067>071-012100- WARREN-TIPPECANOE-FOUNTAIN-VERMILLION-PARKE-VIGO-CLAY-OWEN- SULLIVAN-GREENE-KNOX-DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON- 347 PM EST WED FEB 28 2007 /247 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007/ ...FLOODING AND SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR FAR WESTERN AND FAR SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF LOCAL RIVERS. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST HYDROLOGIC STATEMENT FOR RIVER LEVELS AND CREST FORECASTS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY. SOME OF THE STORMS THURSDAY AFTERNOON MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS LOOKS TO BE FROM 100 PM EST TO 700 PM EST. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT ON THURSDAY. HEAVY RAIN MAY LEAD TO FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ADDITIONAL FLOODING ALONG STREAMS AND RIVERS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THURSDAY AFTERNOON. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) INZ021-030-031-036>042-045>049-054>057-062>065-072-012100- CARROLL-CLINTON-HOWARD-MONTGOMERY-BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON- DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-PUTNAM-HENDRICKS-MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY-MORGAN- JOHNSON-SHELBY-RUSH-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-JENNINGS- 347 PM EST WED FEB 28 2007 ...FLOODING AND SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY. SOME OF THE STORMS THURSDAY AFTERNOON MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS LOOKS TO BE IN THE 100 PM TO 700 PM EST TIME FRAME. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT ON THURSDAY. HEAVY RAIN MAY LEAD TO FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND FLOODING ALONG STREAMS AND RIVERS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THURSDAY AFTERNOON. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE)
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Wabash River remained above flood from late February through March, only briefly dipping below flood stage during the month before rising back above flood due to rainfall. Crests were over 9 feet above flood stage.
The Wabash River remained flooded in Warren County from February through March, dipping below flood stage for only brief periods during the month. Crests were nearly 8.5 feet above flood stage.
The Wabash River remained flooded in Fountain County from February through March, dipping below flood stage for only brief periods during the month. Crests were nearly 8.5 feet above flood stage.
The Wabash River in Vermillion County remained above flood stage from February through all of March. Crests were 10 feet above flood stage.
The Wabash River in Parke County remained above flood stage from February through all of March. Crests were 10 feet above flood stage.
The Wabash River in Vigo County remained above flood from February through March, dipping below flood stage only briefly during the month. Crests were over 6 feet above flood stage.
Several bouts of heavy rain kept the Wabash River in Sullivan County above flood through the entire month of March. Crests were nearly 6 feet above flood stage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, March 2007
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 21569, 21570, 21571, 21572, 21573, 21575, 21576.