Flood Repeat Possible

As Fort Wayne and surrounding areas continue to clean up from last week's floods, we could see another round of heavy rain and mixed precipitation moving in this weekend. While some areas are still flooded, and some low-lying fields and streets are still water (or ice) covered, not all flooding problems have come to an end. Current forcasts show rain moving in late Saturday night, and continuing throughout the day Sunday, possibly chaning to mixed precipitation or snow Sunday night with colder air moving in, with a couple inches of accumulation possible before the system moves out of our area. However, the snow isn't the primary concern, the rain is.

Current predictions make a point that heavy rain is highly likely Sunday, and possible into Sunday night, and before the system moves out we could see over one inch of rain, some areas could see up to two inches. One to two inches of rain, combined with snowmelt and a possible one to three inches of snow, flooding problems could make a comeback early next week- and flooding problems could reach severe levels before receeding, possibly exceeding levels we saw last week.
All in all, I'd say it's safe to say you might want to stay clear of parts of State Street next week, and parts of Clinton heading into downtown. Also, many low-lying areas will see plenty of flooding problems. We will continue to post lists of sandbagging locations next week, as well as continued coverage of flooding across the area.

The following is from the National Weather Service (NWS) of northeastern Indiana:

FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
453 PM EST FRI FEB 15 2008

...HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE LATE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY....A POTENT LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL DEVELOP OVER EASTERN TEXAS ANDRAPIDLY SHIFT NORTHEAST INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION SUNDAY. THECOMBINATION OF STRONG LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM...INCONJUNCTION WITH AMPLE GULF MOISTURE...WILL SUPPORT THEDEVELOPMENT OF WIDESPREAD RAINFALL. THE PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTEDTO BEGIN AS A PERIOD OF FREEZING RAIN LATE SATURDAYNIGHT AND TRANSITION TO ALL RAIN BY SUNDAY MORNING. RAINFALL ISEXPECTED TO BE HEAVY AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY WEST OF A PERU INDIANATO HILLSDALE MICHIGAN LINE. ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY RAINFALLIS POSSIBLE LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A COLD FRONTPUSHES EAST ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA...SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENTOF A LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. TOTAL RAINFALLAMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE BETWEEN THREE QUARTERS OF ANINCH...TO POSSIBLY TWO INCHES. FROZEN SOIL CONDITIONS...MELTINGSNOW PACK...AND RAINFALL WILL LIKELY LEAD TO CONTINUED OR RENEWEDFLOODING ALONG CREEKS...RIVERS...LAKES AND LOW LYING AREAS.