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River Flood Advisory 25, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

March 13, 2012Isabella County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood advisory at Mar 13, 2012, 3:30 PM EDT for Isabella County, Michigan. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2012, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2012, 9:23 PM EDT
In force: 30 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI

County Isabella County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Chippewa River below Mt. Pleasant (MPTM4).

Action stage: 6 ft
Minor stage: 8 ft
Moderate stage: 11 ft
Major stage: 13 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04154000, 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 12, 7:45 PM EDT, 19 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 7:45 PM EDT, 19 hours 45 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 9:09 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Barry	14 hr
Mar 12, 9:09 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Osceola	9 days
Mar 12, 9:09 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Newaygo	7 days

Nearby

River Flood Advisories in Michigan, 2012 Every river flood advisory in 2012

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.