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River Flood Advisory 89, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

April 29, 2011Gratiot County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood advisory at Apr 29, 2011, 11:49 AM EDT for Gratiot County, Michigan. It was in force for 48 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 29, 2011, 11:49 AM EDT (15:49 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2011, 11:41 AM EDT
In force: 48 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI

County Gratiot County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:53 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 Pine River at Alma (ALMM4).

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 8 ft
Moderate stage: 10 ft
Major stage: 12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04155000, 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 28, 3:55 PM EDT, 19 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 3:55 PM EDT, 19 hours 54 minutes 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.