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Flash Flood — Wayne, MI

Sep 11, 2000

A warm and muggy airmass persisted over southeast Michigan. A complex of thunderstorms moved east across northern Michigan in the early morning hours. Outflow from this thunderstorm complex moved south into southeast Michigan as a miniature cold front, and thunderstorms redeveloped along the leading edge of this outflow in the afternoon. Meanwhile, thunderstorms also developed in northeast Indiana, along the edge of a deck of low clouds. These separate areas of thunderstorms would merge over

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5174390). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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