Alert archive / Michigan / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this flash flood warning at Aug 17, 1995, 4:49 PM EDT for Kent County, Michigan. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1995, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kent County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 634 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 172052 COR FFWGRR MIC081-172245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 449 PM EDT THU AUG 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ...SOUTHERN KENT COUNTY AT 450 PM EDT... WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN KENT COUNTY FROM THE GRAND RAPIDS METROPOLITAN AREA SOUTH TO CUTLERVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN KENT COUNTY THROUGH 530 PM. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED RAINFALL TOTALS IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES SINCE 415 PM. 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. CORRECTED EXPIRATION/TRH
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, Aug 17, 4:05 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
MIZ051-056>058-064-065-071-072-172200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 405 PM EDT THU AUG 17 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 405 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FROM NEWAYGO COUNTY...SOUTH ALONG THE OTTAWA/KENT COUNTY LINE...AND FARTHER SOUTH INTO KALAMAZOO COUNTY. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE OCCURRING NEAR GRANT IN NEWAYGO COUNTY...TO MARNE AND WALKER ALONG THE OTTAWA KENT COUNTY BORDER...AND IN SOUTHEAST KALAMAZOO COUNTY NEAR INDIAN LAKE AND SCOTTS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL AFFECT HOWARD CITY IN MONTCALM COUNTY...THE GRAND RAPIDS METROPOLITAN AREA...AND EASTERN KALAMAZOO COUNTY JUST WEST OF BATTLE CREEK. PEOPLE IN THE AFFECTED AREAS WILL EXPERIENCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH WILL MAKE DRIVING HAZARDOUS AS THE EVENING RUSH HOUR APPROACHES. IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM THREATENS SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. IF DRIVING... SLOW DOWN AND BE PREPARED FOR HEAVY DOWNPOURS THAT MAY REDUCE VISIBILITY AND CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON THE ROADWAYS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 5:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRR | Kent | 81 min |
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.