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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1103 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2022
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ST. JOSEPH MI MI-
1103 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM EDT SUNDAY
FOR CENTRAL ST. JOSEPH MI COUNTY...
AT 1103 PM EDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN APPROACHING THE WARNED AREA. BETWEEN 1.5 AND 3
INCHES OF RAIN FELL FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS. THE APPROACHING
THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 1
INCH. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING OR EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
HAZARD...FLASH FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS.
SOURCE...RADAR.
IMPACT...FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS, URBAN AREAS,
HIGHWAYS, STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER POOR
DRAINAGE AND LOW-LYING AREAS.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
THREE RIVERS, CONSTANTINE, CENTREVILLE, NOTTAWA, MENDON, WASEPI
AND FISHERS LAKE.
RAPID RISES ARE EXPECTED ON THE PRAIRIE RIVER BETWEEN CENTREVILLE,
MI TO THE CONFLUENCE WITH THE ST. JOSEPH RIVER SOUTH OF THREE
RIVERS, MI.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
PLEASE REPORT OBSERVED FLOODING TO LOCAL EMERGENCY SERVICES OR LAW
ENFORCEMENT AND REQUEST THEY PASS THIS INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 4193 8565 4204 8556 4198 8536 4180 8549
4183 8569
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
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