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River Flood Warning 33, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

December 24, 2008Kent County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood warning at Dec 24, 2008, 4:46 PM EST for Kent County, Michigan. It took effect at Dec 24, 2008, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 12 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 24, 2008, 4:46 PM EST (21:46 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 24, 2008, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 5, 2009, 1:00 PM EST
In force: 12 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Flood severity: Minor

County Kent County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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 Grand River at Comstock Park (CMPM4).

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Dec 23, 6:34 PM EST, 22 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 6:34 PM EST, 22 hours 12 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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.