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River Flood Warning 22, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

April 17, 2013Isabella County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood warning at Apr 17, 2013, 12:27 PM EDT for Isabella County, Michigan. It took effect at Apr 18, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 17, 2013, 12:27 PM EDT (16:27 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 18, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: Apr 22, 2013, 5:28 AM EDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Flood severity: Minor

County Isabella County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:31 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 warning 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 warning went out at Apr 17, 11:25 AM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 11:25 AM EDT, 1 hour 2 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
Apr 17, 12:58 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Kent	9 hr
Apr 17, 12:58 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Muskegon	9 hr
Apr 17, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot and 9 more	109 min
Apr 17, 4:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot and 9 more	9 hr
Apr 17, 4:17 PM EDT	Gale Warning	GRR		54 hr
Apr 17, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Clinton, Eaton, Ingham, Ionia	57 min
Apr 17, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Kent	66 min
Apr 17, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Ionia, Kalamazoo and 1 more	64 min
Apr 17, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Ionia	65 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Michigan, 2013 Every river flood warning in 2013

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.