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River Flood Warning 45, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

May 19, 2020Ingham County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this river flood warning at May 19, 2020, 4:53 PM EDT for Ingham County, Michigan. It took effect at May 19, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 42 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2020, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
In effect from: May 19, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired: May 21, 2020, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 42 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Ingham County, MI

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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 Lansing (LNSM4).

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04113000, 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 18, 7:40 PM EDT, 21 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 7:40 PM EDT, 21 hours 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
May 18, 9:15 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Ingham	4 days
May 19, 6:07 AM EDT	Lakeshore Flood Advisory	GRR	Allegan, Muskegon, Ottawa, Van Buren	40 hr
May 19, 12:09 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	Kalamazoo	4 days

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.