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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

March 15, 2019Newaygo County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood warning at Mar 15, 2019, 9:05 AM EDT for Newaygo County, Michigan. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 2019, 9:05 AM EDT (13:05 UTC)
Expired: Mar 20, 2019, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Newaygo County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Muskegon River at Newaygo (NEWM4).

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04122001, 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 warning 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 warning went out at Mar 15, 7:52 AM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 7:52 AM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 11:01 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Ottawa	7 days
Mar 14, 11:01 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Clinton	3 days
Mar 14, 11:01 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Clinton	7 days
Mar 14, 11:01 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Kent	3 days
Mar 14, 11:01 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Isabella	45 hr
Mar 14, 11:01 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Kent	7 days
Mar 15, 9:13 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Newaygo	4 days
Mar 15, 9:13 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Newaygo	6 days
Mar 15, 10:03 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Muskegon	54 hr
Mar 15, 11:06 AM EDT	River Flood Watch	GRR	Ionia	26 hr
Mar 15, 2:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GRR	Clare, Gratiot, Isabella, Lake, Mason, Mecosta and 5 more	6 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Michigan, 2019 Every river flood warning in 2019

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.