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Flood — Warren, IN

Jan 4, 2005

Deaths
1
Property Damage
$500K

All of the snow cover from the historic pre-Christmas 2004 snow storm melted by New Year's Day 2005 as the dew point temperatures rose into the 50s. Lowland flooding occurred along the East Fork White River in Jackson County. The White River in southern Indiana rose to bankfull levels. This was the result of the melting snow cover.With warm air over Indiana, a storm system brought 2 to 4 inches of rain to much of central and southern Indiana from the 1st through the 3rd. Because of the satur

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5434424). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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