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River Flood Advisory 175, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

December 1, 2011Jackson County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood advisory at Dec 1, 2011, 10:34 PM EST for Jackson County, Michigan. It was in force for 8 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 1, 2011, 10:34 PM EST (03:34 UTC)
Expired: Dec 9, 2011, 11:09 AM EST
In force: 8 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI

County Jackson County, MI

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 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 Jackson (JACM4).

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 15 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04109000, 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 Dec 1, 6:22 PM EST, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 1, 6:22 PM EST, 4 hours 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 1, 11:38 AM EST, 10 hours 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
1138 AM EST THU DEC 1 2011

MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-020945-
MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON-
MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON-
INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON-
1138 AM EST THU DEC 1 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER
MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ALL OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN MAY RECEIVE UP TO AN INCH OF SNOW TONIGHT.
THAT COULD MAKE FOR A SLIPPERY COMMUTE FRIDAY MORNING.

SOME RIVERS SOUTH AND EAST OF GRAND RAPIDS WILL BE NEAR BANKFULL
TODAY AND TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

LMZ844>849-020945-
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-
1138 AM EST THU DEC 1 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER
MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

WINDS AND WAVES HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT
THROUGH MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 2, 3:57 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	GRR		43 hr
Dec 2, 10:35 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Ionia	9 days

Nearby

River Flood Advisories in Michigan, 2011 Every river flood advisory in 2011

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.