Flood, Livingston
- When
- May 13, 7:00 AM EST to May 31, 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Livingston forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 42.603, -83.911 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Michigan, May 13 to 31, 2002
5 feet at 8 AM EDT May 13th, and did not fall below flood stage until 3 PM EDT May 31st. The river crested at 7 feet at 8 AM EDT May, 20th.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS DTX wrote it up.
The Huron River near Hamburg rose above flood stage of 6.5 feet at 8 AM EDT May 13th, and did not fall below flood stage until 3 PM EDT May 31st. The river crested at 7 feet at 8 AM EDT May, 20th.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Detroit, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 13, 2:16 AM EST, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 2:16 AM EST, 4 hours 44 minutes before
SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 316 AM EDT MON MAY 13 2002 MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN THROUGH MID WEEK. UPPER LEVEL LOW CLOSES OFF JUST EAST OF THE LOWER PENINSULA TODAY AND THEN DEEPENS AND MOVES SLOWLY EASTWARD AWAY FROM MICHIGAN. MODELS HAVE BEEN TRENDING STRONGER WITH THIS UPPER LOW AND THUS MOVING IT EASTWARD SLOWER. WILL FOLLOW THE AVN SOLUTION AS THIS MODEL HAVE BEEN PICKING UP ON THIS TREND BETTER THAN THE ETA. THIS WILL KEEP SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN IN A COOL CYCLONIC FLOW THROUGH TUESDAY. MODEL SOUNDINGS CONTINUE TO SHOW QUITE A BIT OF MOISTURE IN THE LAYER FROM ABOUT 750MB DOWN TO THE SURFACE TODAY. LATEST SATELLITE LOOPS SHOW THE CLOUDS EXTENDING ALL THE WAY BACK UP INTO THE UPPER PENINSULA AND WITH THE UPPER LOW JUST BEGINNING TO CLOSE OFF NOTHING IS GOING TO MOVE TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST TOO FAST TODAY AND TONIGHT. THIS SUPPORTS A CLOUDY FORECAST FOR TODAY. ONCE THE PATCHY DRIZZLE MOVES OUT OF THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING THERE WILL BE LITTLE SUPPORT FOR ANY ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION TODAY. THIS NEXT SHORT WAVE WILL BE ROTATING AROUND THE UPPER LOW AND REACHING SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN THIS EVENING. WEAK Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE ALONG WITH SOME DPVA WILL COMBINE WITH THE MOISTURE ALREADY IN PLACE TO GIVE SOME SHOWERS TO SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. TUESDAY WILL BE AN INTERESTING DAY ACROSS SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. COLD POOL ALOFT WILL BE ROTATING INTO SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN WITH 700MB TEMPERATURES DOWN AROUND MINUS 10C AND 500MB TEMPERATURES DROPPING TO NEAR MINUS 28C. THIS WILL GIVE US TOTAL-TOTALS IN THE MID 50S... VERTICAL TOTALS NEAR 30 AND 850-500MB LAPSE RATES NEAR 7. LIFTED INDEX ALSO DROPS TO NEAR ZERO DURING THE AFTERNOON. THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN THE MODEL SOUNDINGS ON TUESDAY WITH ETA STARTING THE MORNING OUT FAIRLY DRY... BUT THEN DEVELOPING A MOIST LAYER BETWEEN 850MB AND 700MB. AVN SOUNDINGS REMAIN FAIRLY MOIST ALL DAY TUESDAY. GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY AND THE COLD AIR ALOFT I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT IT MATTERS WHICH SOUNDING IS CORRECT. THEY SHOULD BE SOME INSTABILITY SHOWERS DEVELOPING TUESDAY AFTERNOON WITH SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ALSO POSSIBLE. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE SOME GRAUPEL REPORTS ALSO. FLOW FINALLY BECOMES ANTI-CYCLONIC TUESDAY NIGHT AND THIS WILL ALLOW THE SKY TO CLEAR. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP INTO THE MID TO UPPER 30S OVER A LARGE PORTION OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN AND PATCHY FROST WILL BE POSSIBLE. NICE DAY ON WEDNESDAY WITH LOTS OF SUNSHINE AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. CIRRUS AHEAD OF THE NEXT SYSTEM MAY BE SPREADING INTO THE REGION LATE IN THE DAY WEDNESDAY AS THE WARM ADVECTION BEGINS... BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE CLOUDS SHOULD HOLD OFF UNTIL WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WILL CONTINUE THE CHANCE OF SHOWERS FOR THURSDAY AS THE AVN IS SHOWING ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS THE REGION. FWC MAXES APPEAR TO BE TOO WARM GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF CLOUDINESS EXPECTED... THUS WILL HAVE HIGHS NEARER THE COOLER MAV VALUES. WILL ALSO HAVE LOWS NEAR THE MAV VALUES AS THESE APPEAR TO PICK UP THE TRENDS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS BETTER. .DTX...NONE. KEYES
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 13, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 13, 2002
- Flooding in Alaska, May 13 to 21, 2002
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Flood in Pennsylvania, May 13 to 14, 2002
- Wildfire in California, May 13, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 13, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 13, 2002
- Wildfire in California, May 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Michigan in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, May 2002
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5298878.