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3 concurrent flood warnings — 17 counties affected
This is a severe-significance flood outbreak event affecting Shelby County, IN; Marion County, IN; Morgan County, IN; Lake County, IN; Decatur County, IN; Hendricks County, IN; Johnson County, IN; Hancock County, IN; Henry County, IN; Bartholomew County, IN; Tippecanoe County, IN; Putnam County, IN; Montgomery County, OH; Preble County, OH; Fayette County, IN, tracked from official feeds (NOAA / National Weather Service). We update this page as the situation develops.
- Type
- Flood Outbreak
- Extent
- ≈ 4,452,523 acres
- Began
- To end
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Affected area map
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Shelby County, IN; Marion County, IN; Morgan County, IN; Lake County, IN; Decatur County, IN; Hendricks County, IN; Johnson County, IN; Hancock County, IN; Henry County, IN; Bartholomew County, IN; Tippecanoe County, IN; Putnam County, IN; Montgomery County, OH; Preble County, OH; Fayette County, IN · ≈ 7,000 sq mi reported extent · Enable JavaScript to explore the map.
2026-08-02 04:35 UTC · snapshot 21 of 21
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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.
- Forecast discussion NWS IND
Area Forecast Discussion
Cloudy skies and periodic light rain showers expected today, with dry weather moving in tonight through early next week.
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Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Indianapolis IN 251 AM EDT Sun Aug 2 2026
.KEY MESSAGES...
- Cloudy Skies Today with periodic light rain showers.
- Dry weather arrives Tonight through the start of the work week.
- Additional rain chances arrive late this week.
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.DISCUSSION (Today through Saturday)... Issued at 251 AM EDT Sun Aug 2 2026
Surface analysis early this morning shows low pressure centered over Central Indiana. Radar shows a few showers across the northwest parts of the forecast area, stretching from Tipton to near Terre Haute, spinning around the low. GOES shows abundant cloud cover in place across the forecast area due to the low. Water vapor imagery shows a deep trough in place over Indiana with strong ridging over the northern plains. Subsidence was filling into the low from the southwest, wrapping across KY and into SW OH.
Today...
Models continue to keep the upper low lingering across Indiana, slowly sagging southeast. The associated surface low will push across Indiana today before reaching Appalachia tonight. Time heights through the day keep plentiful lower level moisture available and this should lead to…
- News WHIO TV
LIVE UPDATES: Flood Advisories issued across region; showers, storms ending overnight
- Storm report NWS ILN storm report
FLOOD — Clayton, OH
Standing water on roadways. Ponds overflowing.
- Bulletin NWS Indianapolis IN
Flood Warning issued
Putnam, IN
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- Yahoo News
Live updates: Storms continue across Indiana as Indianapolis tornado warning expires
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- ABC7 Chicago News
Chicago weather: Heavy rain Saturday with Cook, DuPage, Kendall, Will counties Flash Flood Watch
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- NBC 5 Chicago News
Flood watches, warnings in effect amid heavy rains in Chicago area
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- Clinton County Daily News News
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- CBS News News
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Updates are captured automatically from official and news sources, and may lag the live source. For the very latest, see NOAA / National Weather Service ↗.
Warnings covered
Warnings this outbreak covered
This page tracks the outbreak as a whole; each entry below is one official warning thread with its own live status, map and update log.
- Flood Warning — Bartholomew, IN +3Bartholomew, IN; Brown, IN; Johnson, IN; Shelby, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Bartholomew, IN +3Bartholomew, IN; Decatur, IN; Johnson, IN; Shelby, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Bartholomew, IN +3Bartholomew, IN; Decatur, IN; Rush, IN; Shelby, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Benton, INBenton, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Cook, ILCook, ILsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Cook, IL +1Cook, IL; Lake, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Cook, IL +2Cook, IL; Will, IL; Lake, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Delaware, IN +2Delaware, IN; Madison, IN; Randolph, INsevereEnded
- Flash Flood Warning — Fayette, IN +3Fayette, IN; Franklin, IN; Union, IN; Wayne, INsevereEnded
- Flash Flood Warning — Franklin, IN +5Franklin, IN; Union, IN; Wayne, IN; Butler, OH; Darke, OH; Preble, OHsevereEnded
- Flash Flood Warning — Greene, OH +2Greene, OH; Miami, OH; Montgomery, OHsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Hancock, IN +4Hancock, IN; Henry, IN; Marion, IN; Rush, IN; Shelby, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Hendricks, INHendricks, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Hendricks, IN +4Hendricks, IN; Monroe, IN; Morgan, IN; Owen, IN; Putnam, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Henry, INHenry, INsevereEnded
- Flash Flood Warning — Marion, INMarion, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Marion, INMarion, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Putnam, INPutnam, INsevereEnded
- Flash Flood Warning — Shelby, INShelby, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Shelby, INShelby, INsevereEnded
- Flood Warning — Tippecanoe, IN +1Tippecanoe, IN; Warren, INsevereEnded