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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Marquette, MI

April 29, 2013Marquette County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this river flood warning at Apr 29, 2013, 12:58 PM EDT for Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 46 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 2013, 12:58 PM EDT (16:58 UTC)
Expired
May 1, 2013, 10:35 AM EDT
In force
46 hr
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Flood severity
Minor

County Marquette County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 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 Chocolay River near Harvey (HRVM4).

Action stage
9.5 ft
Minor stage
10 ft
Moderate stage
11.5 ft
Major stage
13 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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, 7:45 PM EDT, 17 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 7:45 PM EDT, 17 hours 13 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 10:52 PM EDTRiver Flood WatchMQTHoughton22 hr
Apr 29, 9:26 AM EDTRiver Flood AdvisoryMQTOntonagon12 hr
Apr 29, 3:14 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMQTGogebic9 days
Apr 29, 7:36 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningMQTHoughton60 hr
Apr 29, 7:46 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningMQTGogebic62 hr

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.