Flood Warning
NWS Northern Indiana ยท US
Details
Flood Warning In Effect Until 10 AM EDT Friday
- Event
- Flood Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
What
Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
Where
Northeastern Jay County in east central Indiana... Adams County in northeastern Indiana... Huntington County in northeastern Indiana... Wells County in northeastern Indiana...
When
Until 1000 AM EDT Friday.
Impacts
Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. Numerous roads remain closed due to flooding.
Additional details
- At 216 PM EDT,Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms had come to an end. However, due to recent heavy rainfall Flooding, areal flooding is expected to continue tonight into Friday morning. Emergency mangement reports continued flooding across the warned area with several roads closed. Between 2 and 5 inches of rain have fallen. - Additional rainfall amounts up to 0.5 inches are possible in the warned area. - Some locations that will experience flooding include... Huntington, Bluffton, Decatur, Berne, Geneva, Andrews, Markle, Monroe, Warren, Lancaster, Preble, Nottingham, Uniondale, Bryant, Poneto, Mount Etna, Vera Cruz, Travisville, North Oaks and Wellsburg. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Instructions
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles. Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the dangers of flooding.
Affected areas
- Adams County, IN
- Huntington County, IN
- Jay County, IN
- Wells County, IN
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~21s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2R9EKHMGPTRMSP726H98EX9
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.622cfd1271bc18eb5650d5ff6b4a38b81919787e.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Northern Indiana
- AWIPS ID
- CAPIWX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.468
- WMO heading
- XOUS53
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 53
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FLW |
| NationalWeatherService | FAW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FLWIWX |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS43 KIWX 171818 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EDT FRIDAY |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KIWX.FA.W.0005.260917T1818Z-260918T1400Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Adams County, IN
- Huntington County, IN
- Jay County, IN
- Wells County, IN
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 018001 |
| SAME | 018069 |
| SAME | 018075 |
| SAME | 018179 |
| UGC | INC001 |
| UGC | INC069 |
| UGC | INC075 |
| UGC | INC179 |
- Polygons
- 40.73,-85.64 40.92,-85.64 40.82,-84.8 40.51,-84.8 40.57,-85.2 40.57,-85.37 40.65,-85.44 40.65,-85.64 40.73,-85.64