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River Flood Advisory 2, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood advisory at Feb 11, 2009, 12:20 PM EST for Muskegon County, Michigan. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 2009, 12:20 PM EST (17:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2009, 12:16 AM EST
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
County Muskegon County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 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 White River above Whitehall (WHTM4).
- Action stage
- 5 ft
- Minor stage
- 6 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 04122200, 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 advisory 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 advisory went out at Feb 11, 12:17 PM EST, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 12:17 PM EST, 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 11, 11:10 AM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1110 AM EST WED FEB 11 2009 LMZ844>849-MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-121045- ST JOSEPH TO SOUTH HAVEN MI-SOUTH HAVEN TO HOLLAND MI- HOLLAND TO GRAND HAVEN MI-GRAND HAVEN TO WHITEHALL MI- WHITEHALL TO PENTWATER MI-PENTWATER TO MANISTEE MI-MASON-LAKE- OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON-MONTCALM- GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON-INGHAM- VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 1110 AM EST WED FEB 11 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AREAS OF DENSE FOG WILL HOLD ON INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS... MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 96. VISIBILITIES WILL OCCASIONALLY BE REDUCED TO LESS THAN A QUARTER OF A MILE. VISIBILITIES ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE EVERYWHERE THIS AFTERNOON. RAIN WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES LATE THIS MORNING INTO THE MID EVENING HOURS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS BY LATE THIS EVENING COULD APPROACH TWO INCHES IN SOME AREA. THIS COULD LEAD TO SOME URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING PROBLEMS. MAIN STREAM RIVERS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE. WHILE NO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING FROM NEAR INTERSTATE 96 AND SOUTH. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREATS. AS THE COLD AIR SURGES IN THIS EVENING EXPECT GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH EXPECTED NEAR INTERSTATE 94 BETWEEN 6 PM WEDNESDAY AND 7 AM THURSDAY. ELSEWHERE GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY MAIN STREAM RIVER FLOODING ISSUES WILL LIKELY CONTINUE INTO NEXT WEEK. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING SHOULD SUBSIDE THURSDAY AS TEMPERATURES FALL BELOW FREEZING ONCE AGAIN. THERE SEEMS TO BE AN INCREASING THREAT OF MEASURABLE SNOW SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. WDM NJJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 9:30 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 62 hr |
| Feb 10, 9:30 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Jackson | 39 hr |
| Feb 10, 9:30 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Eaton | 39 hr |
| Feb 10, 9:30 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Ottawa | 7 days |
| Feb 10, 9:30 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Ingham | 71 hr |
| Feb 10, 9:30 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Clinton | 39 hr |
| Feb 10, 9:30 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Barry | 4 days |
| Feb 10, 9:30 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Kent | 49 hr |
| Feb 11, 3:19 AM EST | High Wind Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Jackson, Kalamazoo | 25 hr |
| Feb 11, 6:39 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:56 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 17 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:58 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Ingham | 34 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:58 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Ionia | 24 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:58 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Kent | 24 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:58 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Kent | 24 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:58 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Kent | 24 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:58 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Clinton | 5 days |
| Feb 11, 11:58 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Kent | 57 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:58 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Mason | 72 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:20 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Ingham | 36 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:20 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Osceola | 36 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:20 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Isabella | 24 hr |
Nearby
River Flood Advisories in Michigan, 2009Every river flood advisory in 2009
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.