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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY...CORRECTED FOR TYPOS

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI

1208 PM 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 KALAMAZOO AND NORTHEAST VAN BUREN COUNTIES...INCLUDING 

THE CITIES OF KALAMAZOO...OSHTEMO...KENDALL...AND BLOOMINGDALE.



THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THESE AREAS 

EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 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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