Alert archive / Michigan / Flood Watches in 2017
Flood Watch 5, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this flood watch at Oct 22, 2017, 3:27 AM EDT for 23 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Oct 23, 2017, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 22, 2017, 3:27 AM EDT (07:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 23, 2017, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2017, 3:54 PM EDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Flood severity
- None
All 23 counties
Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Clare County, MI, Clinton County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Gratiot County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Isabella County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Kent County, MI, Lake County, MI, Mason County, MI, Mecosta County, MI, Montcalm County, MI, Muskegon County, MI, Newaygo County, MI, Oceana County, MI, Osceola County, MI, Ottawa County, MI, Van Buren County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Oct 22, 3:16 AM EDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 22, 3:16 AM EDT, 11 minutes before
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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.