AREAS AFFECTED : PARKE, IN; VERMILLION, IN; VIGO, IN
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana...
Illinois...
Wabash River at Montezuma...and at Hutsonville down to Riverton.
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in
Indiana...Illinois...
Wabash River at Terre Haute.
.Multiple rounds of rainfall over the past week...totaling at least
2 to 4 inches...has lead to minor lowland flooding along the middle
to lower Wabash River. The Wabash will continue to crest at Terre
Haute this weekend, with the crest reaching Riverton on Tuesday.
Flooding will end at Montezuma Monday...and at Riverton by the
middle of the week.
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Wabash River at Montezuma.
* WHEN...Until late Monday evening.
* IMPACTS...At 18.0 feet, Montezuma agricultural levee is
overtopped. Fourteen hundred acres of low bottomlands flood.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 11:45 AM EDT Saturday the stage was 17.7 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 11:45 AM EDT Saturday was 17.9 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
late Monday morning and continue falling and remain below
flood stage.
- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood