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River Flood Advisory 70, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

April 4, 2016Newaygo County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood advisory at Apr 4, 2016, 11:40 AM EDT for Newaygo County, Michigan. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 2016, 11:40 AM EDT (15:40 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2016, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Newaygo County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:45 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 Muskegon River near Croton Dam (CROM4).

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 11 ft
Major stage: 12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04121970, 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 Apr 4, 11:13 AM EDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 11:13 AM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 4, 11:29 AM EDT, 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
1129 AM EDT MON APR 4 2016

MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-051530-
MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON-
MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON-
INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON-
1129 AM EDT MON APR 4 2016

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

ANOTHER BOUT OF WINTER WEATHER AND SLIPPERY TRAVEL IS EXPECTED
TUESDAY NIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY. PLAN FOR A POTENTIALLY SLOW
WEDNESDAY MORNING COMMUTE... PARTICULARLY NORTH AND EAST OF GRAND
RAPIDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

LMZ844>849-051530-
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-
1129 AM EDT MON APR 4 2016

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

WINDS AND WAVES WILL BE HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT THROUGH THIS
EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

WINDS AND WAVES WILL BE FREQUENTLY HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT FROM
TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY.

.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
Apr 3, 9:47 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Newaygo	3 days
Apr 3, 9:57 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Clinton	15 days
Apr 4, 3:45 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	GRR	Allegan, Calhoun, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Van Buren	17 hr

Nearby

River Flood Advisories in Michigan, 2016 Every 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.