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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI

854 AM EST FRI FEB 9 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A



* FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  OCEANA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN

  OSCEOLA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MICHIGAN

  MUSKEGON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN

  MASON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN

  NEWAYGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN

  LAKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN



* UNTIL 700 AM EST SATURDAY



* AT 854 AM EST...HEAVY RAIN FROM LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING 

  HAS CAUSED MANY STREAMS AND SMALL RIVERS IN THE WARNING AREA TO 

  REACH BANKFULL LEVELS.  IN ADDITION...THE COMBINATION OF WARM 

  TEMPERATURES AND HEAVY RAIN...WAS CAUSING SIGNIFICANT MELTING OF 

  THE SNOW.

  

  MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED THROUGH TODAY...AND TEMPERATURES WILL STAY

  WARM THROUGH THIS MORNING.  THE ADDITIONAL RAIN AND MELTING SNOW

  SHOULD CAUSE STREAMS AND SMALL RIVERS IN THE WARNING AREA TO FLOOD.



  IN PARTICULAR...THE PERE MARQUETTE AND ITS TRIBUTARIES RECEIVED IN

  EXCESS OF AN INCH OF RAIN.  ALSO...MUCH OF MUSKEGON COUNTY HAD OVER

  AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN.  



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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