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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI

1250 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2001



...A FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR INGHAM...MUSKEGON...CLINTON...

KENT...NEWAYGO...GRATIOT...BARRY...MONTCALM...MECOSTA AND ISABELLA

COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM EDT...



COUNTY OFFICIALS INDICATED THAT SOME ROADS WERE CLOSED IN NEWAYGO... 

ISABELLA...MUSKEGON...MONTCALM AND INGHAM COUNTIES DUE TO FLOODING.  

MANY BASEMENTS HAVE BEEN FLOODED ACROSS THE REGION.  



RAINFALL MEASUREMENTS AND RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED 5 TO NEARLY 9 

INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THIS AREA SINCE MONDAY.  RUNOFF FROM 

THIS EXCESSIVE RAIN WILL CONTINUE THE FLOODING IN THE WARNED THROUGH 

500 PM.



SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COULD REDEVELOP AFTER 300 PM THIS 

AFTERNOON.  ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL SHOULD REMAIN UNDER ONE 

INCH...BUT COULD PROLONG THE FLOODING.  



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS 

AND STREAMS...AS WELL AS HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES.  

ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS

AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.



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