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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Marquette, MI

April 28, 2013Iron County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this river flood warning at Apr 28, 2013, 11:40 AM CDT for Iron County, Michigan. It took effect at Apr 29, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2013, 11:40 AM CDT (16:40 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 29, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 3, 2013, 10:36 AM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI
Flood severity: Minor

County Iron County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 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 Paint River at Crystal Falls (CRYM4).

Action stage: 5.5 ft
Minor stage: 7 ft
Moderate stage: 8 ft
Major stage: 9.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04061500, 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 Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 28, 6:41 AM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 6:41 AM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 4:52 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MQT	Delta	68 hr
Apr 28, 5:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MQT	Baraga, Houghton	7 days
Apr 28, 5:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MQT	Houghton	14 days
Apr 28, 5:39 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MQT	Marquette	18 hr

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.