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River Flood Warning 22, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

May 17, 2020Kent County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood warning at May 17, 2020, 12:26 PM EDT for Kent County, Michigan. It took effect at May 18, 2020, 6:56 PM EDT. It was in force for 10 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 2020, 12:26 PM EDT (16:26 UTC)
In effect from: May 18, 2020, 6:56 PM EDT
Expired: May 28, 2020, 8:20 AM EDT
In force: 10 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Kent County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Comstock Park (CMPM4).

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 May 17, 9:19 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 9:19 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 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
May 17, 3:40 AM EDT	Gale Warning	GRR		38 hr
May 17, 8:26 AM EDT	Flood Watch	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 17 more	18 hr
May 17, 12:26 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Ottawa	14 days
May 17, 12:26 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Ingham	4 days
May 17, 12:26 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Barry	6 days
May 17, 12:26 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Kalamazoo	7 days
May 17, 3:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GRR	Allegan, Muskegon, Oceana, Ottawa	30 hr
May 17, 6:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GRR	Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot, Ingham and 9 more	33 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Michigan, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

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.