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River Flood Advisory 69, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood advisory at Apr 26, 2011, 11:16 AM EDT for Kent County, Michigan. It was in force for 10 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2011, 11:16 AM EDT (15:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2011, 5:53 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 days
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
County Kent County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Grand River at Grand Rapids (GDRM4).
- Action stage
- 12 ft
- Minor stage
- 18 ft
- Moderate stage
- 21 ft
- Major stage
- 23 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04119000, 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 Apr 26, 7:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 7:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 26, 11:16 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Osceola | 37 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:21 PM EDT | Flood Watch | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 17 more | 44 hr |
| Apr 26, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Ottawa | 59 min |
| Apr 26, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Kent | 63 min |
| Apr 26, 5:28 PM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Allegan | 6 days |
| Apr 26, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan, Kent, Ottawa | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Gratiot, Isabella, Montcalm | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 5:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRR | Allegan, Kent, Ottawa | 12 hr |
| Apr 26, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo, Van Buren | 56 min |
| Apr 26, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ionia, Kent, Montcalm | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 6:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Ionia, Kent, Montcalm | 25 min |
| Apr 26, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Kent | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Gratiot, Montcalm | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Kalamazoo | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 7:04 PM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Isabella | 15 hr |
| Apr 26, 7:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Gratiot, Montcalm | 23 min |
| Apr 26, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kent | 31 min |
| Apr 26, 7:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Barry, Calhoun, Kalamazoo | 25 min |
| Apr 26, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Gratiot, Isabella | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ionia, Montcalm | 38 min |
| Apr 26, 7:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Barry, Eaton | 32 min |
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.