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WGUS73 KGRR 221550

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MIZ071-072-221800-



URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI

1149 AM EDT WED AUG 22 2001



...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR KALAMAZOO

AND VAN BUREN COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM EDT...



AT 1145 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND TRAINED 

SPOTTERS INDICATED THAT THREE TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 

SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING.  THE AREA OF HEAVIEST RAINFALL OCCURRED 

OVER WESTERN KALAMZOO AND NORTHEAST VAN BUREN...INCLUDING THE CITIES 

OF KALAMAZOO...OSHTEMO...KENDALL...AND BLOOMINGDALE.



ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT 

THESE AREAS INTO EARLY AFTERNOON...WITH AN ADDITION INCH POSSIBLE.



TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING IN THE 

CITIES OF OSHTEMO AND KALAMAZOO...WITH SEVERAL STREETS BLOCKED OFF 

AND UNDERPASSES FLOODED.  RAINFALL REPORTS FROM SPOTTERS CONFIRM THE 

DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF THREE TO FIVE INCHES...A REPORT 

OF 3.9 INCHES WAS REPORTED BY AN SPOTTER IN OSHTEMO.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES

AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.



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