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Part of: Bartholomew County Area Flooding — August 2026 →
Flood Warning issued August 2 at 12:35AM EDT until August 2 at 3:00AM EDT by NWS Indianapolis IN
This is a severe-significance flood warning event affecting Putnam, IN, tracked from official feeds (NOAA / National Weather Service). We update this page as the situation develops.
- Type
- Flood Warning
- Extent
- ≈ 54,263 acres
- Began
- To end
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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.
- Bulletin NWS Indianapolis IN
Flood Warning issued
Putnam, IN
- Storm report NWS LOT storm report
FLOOD — Otterbein, IN
Multiple photos and videos shared to social media show several inches of standing water flooding multiple roads and yards across Otterbein.
- Storm report NWS LOT storm report
FLOOD — 1 N Otterbein, IN
Video shared to social media shows a few inches of water flowing across the intersection of County Line Road and W 600 N Road north of Otterbein.
- Storm report NWS IND storm report
FLASH FLOOD — 3 NNW Shelbyville, IN
Flooding on I-74. Time approximate.
Show 4 earlier updates
- NWS IND storm report Storm report
- NWS IND storm report Storm report
- The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and transform News
Putnam Valley declares emergency, Schodack records 299.47 mm (11.79 inches) of rain, New York
- News 12 - Hudson Valley News
Town of Putnam Valley declares state of emergency due to flash flooding
Updates are captured automatically from official and news sources, and may lag the live source. For the very latest, see NOAA / National Weather Service ↗.