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River Flood Advisory 45, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood advisory at Mar 24, 2016, 10:11 PM EDT for Ionia County, Michigan. It was in force for 37 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2016, 10:11 PM EDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2016, 10:43 AM EDT
- In force
- 37 hr
- 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 02:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Flat River at Smyrna (SMYM4). The gauge peaked at 5.02 ft at Mar 27, 2016, 10:00 AM EDT.
- Action stage
- 5.5 ft
- Minor stage
- 8.5 ft
- Moderate stage
- 9.5 ft
- Major stage
- 10.5 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04116500, 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 24, 6:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 6:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 24, 4:34 AM EDT, 17 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 434 AM EDT THU MAR 24 2016 MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-250845- MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON- MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON- INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 434 AM EDT THU MAR 24 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE EXPECTED NORTH OF M-57 TODAY. SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES ARE ONGOING AND MORE MAY OCCUR TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY RIVER LEVELS MAY RESUME RISING THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH SOME MINOR IMPACTS POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SNOWFALL REPORTS ARE APPRECIATED. LMZ844>849-250845- 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- 434 AM EDT THU MAR 24 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HAZARDOUS BOATING CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
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River Flood Advisories in Michigan, 2016Every river flood advisory in 2016
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.