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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Detroit, MI

January 9, 20084 counties in Michigan

NWS Detroit, MI issued this river flood warning at Jan 9, 2008, 11:03 AM EST for 4 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Jan 10, 2008, 9:21 PM EST. It was in force for 81 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 9, 2008, 11:03 AM EST (16:03 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 10, 2008, 9:21 PM EST
Expired
Apr 1, 2008, 9:55 AM EDT
In force
81 days
Issued by
NWS Detroit, MI
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Bay County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Saginaw County, MI

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Saginaw River at Saginaw (SAGM4).

Action stage
16 ft
Minor stage
17 ft
Moderate stage
19 ft
Major stage
24 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04157000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Detroit, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jan 8, 6:30 PM EST, 16 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 6:30 PM EST, 16 hours 33 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 9, 11:11 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningDTXLenawee, Monroe, Wayne179 days
Jan 9, 5:47 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningDTXMonroe, Washtenaw, Wayne178 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Michigan, 2008Every river flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.