546 first-hand accounts of flood events in Michigan, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Thunderstorms producing torrential rainfall led to flooding in the Detroit metro area early Thursday morning (August 24th). Western Wayne county into Monroe county was hardest hit resulting in widespread residential flooding, road closures, and stranded vehicles.
Read the full account →A seasonably strong shortwave progressed over the Midwest and mid-Mississippi River Valley, providing support for a sub-1000mb cyclone just west of Lake Michigan.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms producing torrential rainfall led to flooding in the Detroit metro area early Thursday morning (August 24th). Western Wayne county into Monroe county was hardest hit resulting in widespread residential flooding, road closures, and stranded vehicles.
Read the full account →A jet max punched over the northern Great Lakes on 10/24, helping to support multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms through the day. As the first round of storms moved east across the area through the morning, favorable warm and moist air advection helped spark a second…
Read the full account →A cold front moved slowly south across southeast Michigan on the morning and afternoon of the 18th. Thunderstorms developed along and ahead of the front. A number of these became severe, producing marginally severe hail.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system was entrenched in the western Great Lakes, maintaining cool air aloft across the region. Thunderstorms developed in the heat of the day, with the most widespread activity developing along the Lake Michigan lake breeze boundary in western lower…
Read the full account →A major severe weather episode occurred across southern lower Michigan, highlighted by three supercell thunderstorms that caused extensive damage. The first supercell storm moved into southwest Kalamazoo county just southwest of Schoolcraft.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain marched across southeast Michigan, south of Interstate 69, in the early morning hours of the 25th. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 3 inches were common; the highest rainfall total was 3.40 inches in Walled Lake.
Read the full account →A warm front moved north across lower Michigan on the 12th, ushering in another warm, muggy, unstable air mass. Thunderstorms developed northeast of Grand Rapids in the afternoon, then moved east toward the Saginaw Valley and Thumb areas.
Read the full account →Rainfall of 1 to 2 inches on the night of the 12th, along with nearly 2 inches of rainfall plus snowmelt during the previous week, led to moderate flooding along the Tittabawassee River in Midland. The river crested 3 feet above flood stage in Midland at 2200 EST on the 14th.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms developed during the late evening hours of June 12th mainly south of Interstate 96, resulting in numerous reports of downed trees and power lines, as well as localized flash flooding across portions of Eaton county where several roads were flooded or washed…
Read the full account →Rivers were still high after rain and snowmelt from a few days previous. So when another round of rain arrived in the early morning hours of the 13th, flooding quickly redeveloped. Spotty flooding occurred in Arenac and Gladwin Counties.
Read the full account →Flooding occurred late on June 15th and into the 16th across portions of Kent county. Numerous road closures occurred due to high water. Flooding resulted in the evacuation of 15 residents from a retirement complex in Kentwood, Michigan; estimated damage was $250,000 for the…
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front was drifting southeast across Michigan, with a weak area of low pressure moving northeast along the front. These helped numerous thunderstorms develop during the evening and nighttime hours.
Read the full account →A warm and muggy airmass persisted over southeast Michigan. A complex of thunderstorms moved east across northern Michigan in the early morning hours.
Read the full account →The fourth straight day with areas of heavy rain due to thunderstorms. One cluster of showers and thunderstorms persisted over Genesee County for much of the morning, dumping 2.65 inches of rain on Bishop Airport (after 2.26 inches the previous day).
Read the full account →A major severe weather episode occurred across southern lower Michigan, highlighted by three supercell thunderstorms that caused extensive damage. The first supercell storm moved into southwest Kalamazoo county just southwest of Schoolcraft.
Read the full account →Perhaps the worst lakeshore flood on western Lake Erie in 25 years developed rapidly on the 9th. Low pressure intensified along the Indiana-Ohio border on the morning of the 9th, and moved to near Cleveland, Ohio by evening.
Read the full account →The Rifle River rose out of its banks and flooded between Omer and Saginaw Bay. Rain and warm temperatures contributed to a rapid melt of the snowpack in the basin. It is believed that an ice jam near the mouth of the river contributed to the high water levels.
Read the full account →A large area of thunderstorms spread over the area ahead of a warm front on Saturday evening. The severe weather occurred along and south of the Interstate 94 corridor. A storm passing just south of downtown Battle Creek produced a tornado just after 11 PM EST.
Read the full account →A large area of thunderstorms spread over the area ahead of a warm front on Saturday evening. The severe weather occurred along and south of the Interstate 94 corridor. A storm passing just south of downtown Battle Creek produced a tornado just after 11 PM EST.
Read the full account →A warm front moved north across southern and central lower Michigan during the day of June 21st, allowing a much warmer and very humid airmass to advect into the area.
Read the full account →A warm front moved north across southern and central lower Michigan during the day of June 21st, allowing a much warmer and very humid airmass to advect into the area.
Read the full account →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.
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