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River Flood Advisory 26, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

March 11, 2011Allegan County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood advisory at Mar 11, 2011, 10:07 AM EST for Allegan County, Michigan. It was in force for 58 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 11, 2011, 10:07 AM EST (15:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2011, 8:44 PM EDT
In force: 58 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI

County Allegan County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:11 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 Kalamazoo River near New Richmond (RCMM4).

Action stage: 15 ft
Minor stage: 17 ft
Moderate stage: 19 ft
Major stage: 21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04108660, 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 Mar 11, 9:49 AM EST, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 9:49 AM EST, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 11, 5:30 AM EST, 4 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
530 AM EST FRI MAR 11 2011

MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-121000-
MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON-
MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON-
INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON-
530 AM EST FRI MAR 11 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SOME LIGHT FREEZING RAIN IS POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT NORTH OF HIGHWAY
M 46.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

A LIGHT WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION MAY CREATE SLICK TRAVEL
SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

LMZ844>849-121000-
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-
530 AM EST FRI MAR 11 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

WINDS AND WAVES HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT WILL DIMINISH THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING... BUT INCREASE AGAIN LATE TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

GALE FORCE WINDS FROM THE WEST ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY
EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

MEADE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 11, 4:20 AM EST	Gale Watch	GRR		11 hr
Mar 11, 3:05 PM EST	Gale Warning	GRR		31 hr

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.