Heavy rainfall run off, combined with already near record water levels on Lake Michigan and west winds caused lakeshore flooding in portions of Berrien county.
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 IWX wrote it up.
Heavy rainfall run off, combined with already near record water levels on Lake Michigan and west winds caused lakeshore flooding in portions of Berrien county.
1 lakeshore flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Lakeshore flooding spread inland in the Saint Joseph and Benton Harbor area. Both Anchors Way Road in Saint Josehh and Riverview Drive in Benton Harbor had roughly a foot of water over them. Flooding also impacted the Schultz Roofing Company with six inches to one foot of water along the south wall of the building.
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