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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
1259 PM EDT WED APR 15 2026
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE MI HAS ISSUED A FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN MICHIGAN...
EAST BRANCH ESCANABA RIVER AT GWINN AFFECTING MARQUETTE COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MARQUETTE.
THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED THURSDAY MORNING AT 900 AM EDT.
MIC103-161300-
/O.NEW.KMQT.FL.W.0007.260418T1000Z-260420T1500Z/
/GNNM4.1.RS.260418T1000Z.260419T0000Z.260419T1500Z.UU/
1259 PM EDT WED APR 15 2026
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING TO LATE MONDAY
MORNING...
* WHAT...MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* WHERE...EAST BRANCH ESCANABA RIVER AT GWINN.
* WHEN...FROM SATURDAY MORNING TO LATE MONDAY MORNING.
* IMPACTS...AT 7.0 FEET, LOW LYING AREAS OF PETER NORDEEN PARK BEGIN
TO FLOOD
AT 7.9 FEET, WATER REACHES THE BOTTOM GIRDER OF THE M-35 BRIDGE
AT 8.1 FEET, SOUTHGATE DRIVE NEAR THE OLD GWINN MIDDLE SCHOOL FLOODS
AT 9.0 FEET, PETER NORDEEN PARK ON RIGHT BANK FLOODS
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- AT 7:10 AM EDT WEDNESDAY THE STAGE WAS 4.6 FEET.
- BANKFULL STAGE IS 6.0 FEET.
- FORECAST...THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE
SATURDAY MORNING TO A CREST OF 7.3 FEET SATURDAY EVENING. IT
WILL THEN FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE LATE SUNDAY MORNING.
- FLOOD STAGE IS 7.0 FEET.
- FLOOD HISTORY...THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF
7.9 FEET ON 04/17/2002.
- WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD
LAT...LON 4633 8743 4627 8737 4624 8745 4629 8751
DT
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