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River Flood Warning 45, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood warning at Apr 29, 2009, 6:15 AM EDT for Ionia County, Michigan. It took effect at Apr 29, 2009, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2009, 6:15 AM EDT (10:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 29, 2009, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2009, 10:23 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Ionia County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:15 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 Grand River at Ionia (IONM4).
- Action stage
- 13.5 ft
- Minor stage
- 21 ft
- Moderate stage
- 23 ft
- Major stage
- 25 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04116000, 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 Apr 28, 4:15 PM EDT, 14 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 4:15 PM EDT, 14 hours before
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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.