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River Flood Warning 28, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

March 10, 2009Kalamazoo County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood warning at Mar 10, 2009, 10:30 AM EDT for Kalamazoo County, Michigan. It took effect at Mar 12, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 44 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2009, 10:30 AM EDT (14:30 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 12, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 13, 2009, 9:53 PM EDT
In force: 44 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Flood severity: Minor

County Kalamazoo County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Kalamazoo River at Comstock (CMSM4).

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 10 ft
Major stage: 11 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04106000, 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 Mar 10, 7:33 AM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 7:33 AM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 10, 9:56 AM EDT, 34 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 9, 10:30 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Jackson	4 days
Mar 9, 10:30 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Clinton	6 days
Mar 9, 10:30 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Mason	60 hr
Mar 9, 10:30 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Muskegon	14 hr
Mar 9, 10:30 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Newaygo	14 hr
Mar 10, 4:09 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 17 more	36 hr
Mar 10, 11:37 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Eaton	35 hr
Mar 10, 11:37 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Ingham	58 hr
Mar 10, 11:37 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Ottawa	6 days
Mar 10, 11:37 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Barry	58 hr
Mar 10, 12:16 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Ionia	57 hr
Mar 10, 12:16 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Calhoun	44 hr
Mar 10, 12:16 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Allegan	4 days
Mar 10, 12:16 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Ingham	11 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.