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Part of: Shelby County Area Flooding — August 2026 →
Flood Warning issued August 12 at 11:47AM EDT until August 14 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Northern Indiana
This is a severe-significance flood warning event affecting Blackford, IN; Huntington, IN; Jay, IN; Wabash, IN; Wells, IN, tracked from official feeds (NOAA / National Weather Service). We update this page as the situation develops.
- Type
- Flood Warning
- Extent
- ≈ 34,953 acres
- Began
- To end
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Affected area map
The shaded area is the affected-area perimeter reported for this event by NOAA / National Weather Service (Blackford, IN; Huntington, IN; Jay, IN; Wabash, IN; Wells, IN), colored by hazard type. Pan and zoom to explore the map; when more than one observation exists, use the slider below to step through how the reported area changed.
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Blackford, IN; Huntington, IN; Jay, IN; Wabash, IN; Wells, IN · ≈ 55 sq mi reported extent · Enable JavaScript to explore the map.
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Latest updates
Official updates and news coverage for this event, newest first — National Weather Service products, local storm reports, incident updates and press headlines. Official items are verbatim government text; news headlines link out to the original outlet.
- Storm report NWS IND storm report
FLOOD — 1 NW Yorktown, IN
Neighborhood street flooding with stalled car with water halfway up the tires.
- Storm report NWS IND storm report
FLOOD — 4 ESE New Castle, IN
Small section of road was washed away and currently has flowing water over it.
- Storm report NWS IWX storm report
FLASH FLOOD — 1 NNE Upland, IN
SR5 and IN-22 is flooded with water at least knee deep. There was one reported rescue at the intersection at 11 AM.
- Bulletin NWS Northern Indiana
Flood Warning issued
Blackford, IN; Huntington, IN; Jay, IN; Wabash, IN; Wells, IN
Show 5 earlier updates
- Hartford City News Times News
- Hartford City News Times News
- Hartford City News Times News
- Hartford City News Times News
- wimsradio.com News
FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING…
Updates are captured automatically from official and news sources, and may lag the live source. For the very latest, see NOAA / National Weather Service ↗.