Upcoming Change to Flood Impact Categories at Sugar Creek at Crawfordsville (CRWI3)

Service Change Notice
National Weather Service Indianapolis
1103 AM EST Thursday March 3 2022

To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-Other NWS partners, users, and employees

From: Ted Funk
Meteorologist in Charge
WFO Indianapolis, IN

Subject: Change to flood impact categories for river forecast
services at Sugar Creek at Crawfordsville (CRWI3)

Effective April 5, 2022, flood impact categories for the Sugar Creek
at Crawfordsville river forecast location, (NWS identifier CRWI3)
will change. These changes to flood impact categories are necessary
due to the relocation of the gage from just upstream of the bridge
at U.S. Highway 231 to the bridge at Lafayette Ave. Action/Issuance
stage will change from 4.0 feet to 12.0 feet. Minor flood stage will
change from 8.0 feet to 15.0 feet. Moderate flood stage will change
from 10.0 feet to 17.0 feet. Major flood stage will change from 14.0
feet to 21.0 feet. River forecasts will be issued when river levels
at this location reach, or are expected to reach action stage.

Forecast and warning information is available from the NOAA/NWS
Indianapolis web page at weather.gov/ind as well as the NOAA/NWS
Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS) web page at
water.weather.gov.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this change, please
contact:

Crystalyne Pettet
Service Hydrologist
crystalyne.pettet@noaa.gov
317-856-0362