Brief northeast winds of 20 to 30 mph lead to elevated water levels impacting western Lake St. Clair and western Lake Erie.
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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.
The episode as NWS DTX wrote it up.
Brief northeast winds of 20 to 30 mph lead to elevated water levels impacting western Lake St. Clair and western Lake Erie.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 lakeshore flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The water level at St. Clair Shores peaked at 63.30 above LWD at 1948 LST.
The water level at Windmill Point peaked at 64.10 above LWD at 2030 LST.
The water level at Toledo peaked at 75.60 above LWD at 0142 LST.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Michigan in 2020Every state in 2020This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, May 2020
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 881721, 881723, 881724.