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River Flood Advisory 9, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood advisory at Feb 12, 2009, 12:27 PM EST for Kent County, Michigan. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2009, 12:27 PM EST (17:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2009, 12:23 AM EST
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
County Kent County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 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 Grand River at Ada (ADAM4).
- Action stage
- 17 ft
- Minor stage
- 20 ft
- Moderate stage
- 22 ft
- Major stage
- 25 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04118105, 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, 6:55 PM EST, 17 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 6:55 PM EST, 17 hours 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 6:38 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Isabella | 22 hr |
| Feb 12, 12:27 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Kent | 24 hr |
| Feb 12, 12:27 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Clinton | 24 hr |
| Feb 12, 12:27 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Allegan | 36 hr |
| Feb 12, 12:27 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Jackson | 24 hr |
| Feb 12, 12:27 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Eaton | 24 hr |
| Feb 12, 12:27 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Ionia | 36 hr |
| Feb 12, 12:27 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Kent | 24 hr |
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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.