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River Flood Warning 37, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

December 26, 2008Mason County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood warning at Dec 26, 2008, 9:53 AM EST for Mason County, Michigan. It took effect at Dec 27, 2008, 11:22 PM EST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 26, 2008, 9:53 AM EST (14:53 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 27, 2008, 11:22 PM EST
Expired: Jan 1, 2009, 4:00 AM EST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Flood severity: Minor

County Mason County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:54 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 Pere Marquette River near Scottville (SCTM4).

Action stage: 4 ft
Minor stage: 5.5 ft
Moderate stage: 6.5 ft
Major stage: 7 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04122500, 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 26, 6:15 AM EST, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 26, 6:15 AM EST, 3 hours 38 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
Dec 26, 9:53 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GRR	Ottawa	10 days
Dec 26, 9:53 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GRR	Clinton	62 hr
Dec 26, 9:53 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GRR	Kalamazoo	4 days
Dec 26, 9:53 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GRR	Muskegon	4 days
Dec 26, 3:32 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 17 more	27 hr
Dec 26, 5:41 PM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	GRR		22 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Michigan, 2008 Every 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.