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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

September 12, 2008Kalamazoo County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood warning at Sep 12, 2008, 9:58 PM EDT for Kalamazoo County, Michigan. It took effect at Sep 13, 2008, 4:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 12 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 12, 2008, 9:58 PM EDT (01:58 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 13, 2008, 4:00 PM EDT
Expired: Sep 25, 2008, 10:18 AM EDT
In force: 12 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Flood severity: Minor

County Kalamazoo County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Portage River near Vicksburg (VCKM4).

Action stage: 4.5 ft
Minor stage: 5 ft
Moderate stage: 7 ft
Major stage: 8 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04097170, 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 Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Sep 12, 9:10 PM EDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 9:10 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 12, 11:00 PM EDT	Flood Watch	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot and 10 more	41 hr
Sep 13, 4:06 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GRR		6 hr
Sep 13, 10:56 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Eaton, Ingham, Jackson and 2 more	4 days
Sep 13, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Kalamazoo, Van Buren	67 min
Sep 13, 4:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GRR	Van Buren	41 min
Sep 13, 4:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GRR	Kalamazoo	42 min
Sep 13, 5:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GRR	Calhoun, Kalamazoo	50 min
Sep 13, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Eaton	47 min
Sep 13, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Ingham	60 min

Nearby

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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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.