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River Flood Advisory 2, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

February 11, 2009Muskegon County, Michigan

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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 10, 9:30 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRKalamazoo62 hr
Feb 10, 9:30 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRJackson39 hr
Feb 10, 9:30 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRREaton39 hr
Feb 10, 9:30 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRROttawa7 days
Feb 10, 9:30 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRIngham71 hr
Feb 10, 9:30 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRClinton39 hr
Feb 10, 9:30 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRBarry4 days
Feb 10, 9:30 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRKent49 hr
Feb 11, 3:19 AM ESTHigh Wind WarningGRRCalhoun, Jackson, Kalamazoo25 hr
Feb 11, 6:39 AM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryGRRAllegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 17 more5 hr
Feb 11, 11:56 AM ESTAreal Flood WarningGRRAllegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 17 more23 hr
Feb 11, 11:58 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRIngham34 hr
Feb 11, 11:58 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRIonia24 hr
Feb 11, 11:58 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRKent24 hr
Feb 11, 11:58 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRKent24 hr
Feb 11, 11:58 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRKent24 hr
Feb 11, 11:58 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRClinton5 days
Feb 11, 11:58 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRKent57 hr
Feb 11, 11:58 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningGRRMason72 hr
Feb 11, 12:20 PM ESTRiver Flood AdvisoryGRRIngham36 hr
Feb 11, 12:20 PM ESTRiver Flood AdvisoryGRROsceola36 hr
Feb 11, 12:20 PM ESTRiver Flood AdvisoryGRRIsabella24 hr

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.