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River Flood Warning 22, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

March 7, 2009Muskegon County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood warning at Mar 7, 2009, 9:42 PM EST for Muskegon County, Michigan. It took effect at Mar 8, 2009, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 7, 2009, 9:42 PM EST (02:42 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 8, 2009, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: Mar 8, 2009, 12:01 PM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Flood severity: Minor

County Muskegon County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 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 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 warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 7, 8:47 PM EST, 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 7, 9:34 PM EST, 8 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
Mar 7, 9:42 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GRR	Isabella	4 days
Mar 8, 11:30 AM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	GRR	Clare, Lake, Mason, Osceola	12 hr
Mar 8, 11:55 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Kent	9 days
Mar 8, 11:55 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Kalamazoo	12 days
Mar 8, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Ionia	41 min
Mar 8, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Allegan, Van Buren	47 min
Mar 8, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Eaton, Ionia, Kalamazoo, Kent	56 min
Mar 8, 4:22 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Eaton, Ingham, Jackson and 2 more	8 hr
Mar 8, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Barry, Calhoun, Eaton, Ingham, Jackson	60 min
Mar 8, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Calhoun, Eaton, Ingham, Jackson	97 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Michigan, 2009 Every river flood warning 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.