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River Flood Advisory 95, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

August 15, 2016Jackson County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood advisory at Aug 15, 2016, 10:36 AM EDT for Jackson County, Michigan. It was in force for 27 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 15, 2016, 10:36 AM EDT (14:36 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 27 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Jackson County, MI

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:40 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 Jackson (JACM4).

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 15 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04109000, 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 Aug 15, 7:59 AM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 7:59 AM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 15, 5:32 AM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
532 AM EDT MON AUG 15 2016

MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-160945-
MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON-
MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON-
INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON-
532 AM EDT MON AUG 15 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING FOR AREAS
ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 96. POTENTIAL HEAVIER SWATHS OF
RAIN TOTALING 2 TO 4 INCHES WILL MAKE FLOODING A POSSIBILITY.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FROM THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT BUT
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

SOME LOCALLY DENSE FOG IS EXPECTED THIS MORNING...BUT IT SHOULD
LIFT BY MID MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

HEAVIER RAIN MAY CONTINUE THROUGH MID MORNING ON TUESDAY BEFORE
TAPERING OFF IN THE AFTERNOON.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

LMZ844>849-160945-
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-
532 AM EDT MON AUG 15 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AREAS OF FOG ARE POSSIBLE OVER LAKE MICHIGAN BOTH TODAY AND
TONIGHT AS A HUMID AIR MASS MOVES OVER THE LAKE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

DUKE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 3:51 AM EDT	Flood Watch	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot and 8 more	24 hr
Aug 15, 10:22 AM EDT	River Flood Watch	GRR	Kalamazoo	52 hr
Aug 15, 10:36 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Ingham	51 hr
Aug 15, 10:36 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Clinton	4 days

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.