Aug 9, 1998
A warm and humid airmass blanketed southeast Michigan. Thunderstorms repeatedly developed in the afternoon along a lake breeze boundary off of Lake St Clair. These thunderstorms generated extremely heavy rainfall over a small portion of eastern Macomb County. National Weather Service radar estimated over eight inches of rain in the southern part of Clinton Township, near 15 Mile Road and Gratiot Avenue (M-3). An volunteer observer for a local television station measured 8.16 inches of rain n
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5660584). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in MacOmb County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.