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WGUS73 KGRR 222338

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FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI

738 PM EDT WED AUG 22 2001



...THE FLOOD WARNING FOR KALAMAZOO...VAN BUREN AND CALHOUN COUNTIES

HAS BEEN CANCELLED...



AT 724 PM EDT REPORTS FROM THE COUNTY SHERIFFS INDICATED FLOODING 

OF BUSINESSES... UNDERPASSES... AND SMALL CREEKS AND HAD ENDED.  

THERE WERE REPORTS OF CARS STUCK IN FLOODED UNDERPASSES AND 

BUSINESSES HAVING TO PUMP WATER OUT OF THEIR STORES IN KALAMAZOO 

DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM THIS AFTERNOON.  THE PRIMARY AREA OF 

THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAD LEFT FROM 3 TO 6 INCHES ACROSS MOST OF THE 

WARNING AREA BY EARLY THIS EVENING HAS MOVED DOWN INTO NORTHERN 

INDIANA AND IS NOT LONGER A THREAT.  WHILE A FEW MORE THUNDERSTORMS 

REMAIN POSSIBLE INTO LATE THIS EVENING... THE RAINFALL FROM THESE 

THUNDERSTORMS WILL NOT BE NEARLY AS INTENSE AS THE THUNDERSTORMS 

THIS AFTERNOON.  AS A RESULT THE FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. 



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