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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI

256 PM EDT MON JUL 23 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR OTTAWA AND ALLEGAN COUNTIES

UNTIL 400 PM EDT...



AT 230 PM EDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN ALLEGAN COUNTY JUST 

EAST OF SAUGATUCK AT OLD ALLEGAN AND 63RD STREET AND AT 220 PM

FLOODING WAS REPORTED ALONG THE OTTAWA COUNTY LINE NEAR HOLLAND.  IN 

OTTAWA COUNTY BETWEEN 220 AND 240 MAJOR FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN 

HOLLAND CITY...HOLLAND TOWNSHIP AND IN GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP AT 

CHICAGO DRIVE JUST WEST OF 48TH STREET. 



RAINS HAD DIMINISHED TO THE LIGHT TO MODERATE VARIETY ACROSS THE 

AREA BY 255 PM BUT RUNOFF FROM THE 2 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN THAT FELL 

EARLIER IN THE DAY WILL KEEP SOME AREAS FLOODED THROUGH 4 PM.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH 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.



MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING 

FROM ANOTHER BATCH OF STORMS THAT WAS JUST MOVING OFF THE WISCONSIN 

SHORE.



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