Alert archive / Michigan / Flood Watches in 2008
Flood Watch 3, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this flood watch at Apr 10, 2008, 12:56 PM EDT for 12 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Apr 10, 2008, 4:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2008, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 10, 2008, 4:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2008, 3:16 AM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Clinton County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Kent County, MI, Ottawa County, MI, Van Buren County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Apr 10, 12:30 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 12:30 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
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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.