Alert archive / Michigan / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1994, 1:12 PM EDT for Kent County, Montcalm County, Michigan. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1994, 1:12 PM EDT (17:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1994, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kent County, MI, Montcalm County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRR 141714 FFWGRR MIC081-117-142115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 112 PM EDT THU JUL 14 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ...NORTHEASTERN KENT COUNTY...MONTCALM COUNTY AT 110 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR DETECTED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ALONG HIGHWAY 46 STRETCHING FROM HOWARD CITY TO VESTABURG IN MONTCALM COUNTY. A SKYWARN SPOTTER AT WABASIS LAKE IN NORTHEAST KENT COUNTY MEASURED 2.30 INCHES OF RAINFALL BETWEEN 1030 AND 1130 AM. THE MONTCALM COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A WATER DEPTH OF SIX INCHES AT SIDNEY ROAD AND HIGHWAY 91 IN SOUTHWEST MONTCALM COUNTY. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD EXIT MONTCALM COUNTY BY 215 PM EDT. MEANTIME... AN INCH OR TWO OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE IN MONTCALM COUNTY. PERSONS LIVING ALONG TAMARACK CREEK IN HOWARD CITY AND INDIAN LAKES NEAR THE LITTLE MANISTEE RIVER SHOULD MONITOR WATERS LEVELS. IF THE WATER BEGINS TO RISE... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO> NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY... AND YOU SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. TPH &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 9:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
MIZ020-021-025>027-031>033-037>039-043>045-050-515-141530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 945 AM EDT THU JUL 14 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH MUCH OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 930 AM EDT...A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS NOTED OVER WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND INCLUDED THE ADJOINING WATERS OF CENTRAL LAKE MICHIGAN. THE HEAVIEST AREA OF STORMS WAS NOTED OVER THE WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN COUNTIES OF MECOSTA...NEWAYGO...OCEANA AND MUSKEGON. MOST SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OF THE NORMAL SUMMER GARDEN-STYLE VARIETY. WEATHER OBSERVERS IN NORTHERN MUSKEGON COUNTY INDICATED ONE STORM PRODUCING .75 INCHES RAINFALL. THE WEATHER SERVICE AT THE MUSKEGON COUNTY RECORDED .07 INCHES RAIN FROM ANOTHER STORM. . THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST WHILE THE STORMS WERE SLIDING EAST AND WILL TAKE MOST OF THE MORNING TO CLEAR THE REGION. DEADLY LIGHTNING WAS ACCOMPANYING A FEW OF THE HEAVIER STORMS...OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES MAYBE HALTED AND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS TAKEN.
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.