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River Flood Advisory 20, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

February 29, 2016Ionia County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood advisory at Feb 29, 2016, 8:26 PM EST for Ionia County, Michigan. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 29, 2016, 8:26 PM EST (01:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2016, 1:00 PM EST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Ionia County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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 Grand River at Ionia (IONM4).

Action stage: 13.5 ft
Minor stage: 21 ft
Moderate stage: 23 ft
Major stage: 25 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04116000, 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 Feb 29, 7:43 PM EST, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 29, 7:43 PM EST, 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 29, 3:28 PM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
328 PM EST MON FEB 29 2016

MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-012030-
MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON-
MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON-
INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON-
328 PM EST MON FEB 29 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER
MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SNOW WILL SPREAD ACROSS MOST OF LOWER MICHIGAN TONIGHT AND TUESDAY
WITH HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS DEVELOPING AROUND OR JUST BEFORE
THE TUESDAY MORNING COMMUTE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW TUESDAY WILL BRING HAZARDOUS TRAVEL THROUGH
THE TUESDAY MORNING COMMUTE AND POSSIBLY INTO THE TUESDAY EVENING
COMMUTE. SNOW SHOULD TAPER OFF TUESDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

LMZ844>849-012030-
ST JOSEPH TO SOUTH HAVEN MI-SOUTH HAVEN TO HOLLAND MI-
HOLLAND TO GRAND HAVEN MI-GRAND HAVEN TO WHITEHALL MI-
WHITEHALL TO PENTWATER MI-PENTWATER TO MANISTEE MI-
328 PM EST MON FEB 29 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER
MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

WINDS AND WAVES WILL BE HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

WINDS AND WAVES WILL BE HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT TUESDAY MORNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 2:58 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot, Ingham and 5 more	22 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.