546 first-hand accounts of flood events in Michigan, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lowell and Hurricane Ike moved into the region and interacted with a stationary boundary to bring heavy rainfall to portions of far southern lower Michigan starting on the 11th, extending into the early morning hours of the 15th.
Read the full account →Widespread lakeshore flooding from record high water levels of the Great Lakes and periodic strong onshore flow occurred from late April 2019 to November 2019. Extensive erosion and property damage occurred, with monetary values in the millions.
Read the full account →Late season melting of significant snow pack caused minor to moderate flooding across west and north central Upper Michigan from the 28th into 30th. Gogebic County was hardest hit by the flooding where numerous primary and secondary roads were closed.
Read the full account →Late season melting of significant snow pack caused minor to moderate flooding across west and north central Upper Michigan from the 28th into 30th. Gogebic County was hardest hit by the flooding where numerous primary and secondary roads were closed.
Read the full account →A warm front, oriented west to east, was located just south of Michigan during the early morning hours. A series of showers and thunderstorms developed just north of the front. These storms moved east, parallel to the warm front, in a typical train-echo pattern.
Read the full account →A warm front, oriented west to east, was located just south of Michigan during the early morning hours. A series of showers and thunderstorms developed just north of the front. These storms moved east, parallel to the warm front, in a typical train-echo pattern.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed during the morning hours of the 15th, producing several reports of large hail and high winds. It was also a record rainfall event for the Grand Rapids area, and 4 to 5 inches of rain fell in less than 6 hours across much of southwestern and south central…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed during the morning hours of the 15th, producing several reports of large hail and high winds. It was also a record rainfall event for the Grand Rapids area, and 4 to 5 inches of rain fell in less than 6 hours across much of southwestern and south central…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed during the morning hours of the 15th, producing several reports of large hail and high winds. It was also a record rainfall event for the Grand Rapids area, and 4 to 5 inches of rain fell in less than 6 hours across much of southwestern and south central…
Read the full account →During Friday, June 20th, very warm, moist and unstable air was in place across much of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, ahead of a strong, slow-moving cold front across the western Great Lakes region.
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 →Heavy rain fell over southeast Michigan from September 12th-14th, with widespread 3 to 6 inches reported. Isolated amounts around 8 inches were even reported across northwest Genesee County.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed and moved across Lake Michigan during the evening hours on June 19th. Several hours of intense rainfall occurred starting around 7:00 PM EST. The ground was already saturated from early morning thunderstorms that produced very heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lowell and Hurricane Ike moved into the region and interacted with a stationary boundary to bring heavy rainfall to portions of far southern lower Michigan starting on the 11th, extending into the early morning hours of the 15th.
Read the full account →Moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lowell and Hurricane Ike moved into the region and interacted with a stationary boundary to bring heavy rainfall to portions of far southern lower Michigan starting on the 11th, extending into the early morning hours of the 15th.
Read the full account →Moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lowell and Hurricane Ike moved into the region and interacted with a stationary boundary to bring heavy rainfall to portions of far southern lower Michigan starting on the 11th, extending into the early morning hours of the 15th.
Read the full account →Deep moisture, associated with the remnants of tropical system Barry, interacted with a slow moving cold front and resulted in numerous thunderstorms with intense rainfall for much of the afternoon west of US-23.
Read the full account →Several rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms moved across southwest lower Michigan from July 27 to July 29, flooding roadways and intersections across areas near to mainly south of Interstate 96.
Read the full account →Heavy rain fell over southeast Michigan from September 12th-14th, with widespread 3 to 6 inches reported. Isolated amounts around 8 inches were even reported across northwest Genesee County.
Read the full account →An upper low moving over a warm front that stretched across northern Lower Michigan set the stage for heavy rainfall on May 3rd. Training thunderstorms (storms that move over the same location) produced 5 to 7 inches of rainfall across portions of Mason and Lake counties.
Read the full account →Heavy rain fell between the 7th and 11th bringing 3 or more inches of rainfall to a good portion of southeast lower Michigan with the River Raisin basin getting hit the worst with 4 to 5 inches in that period.
Read the full account →An upper low moving over a warm front that stretched across northern Lower Michigan set the stage for heavy rainfall on May 3rd. Training thunderstorms (storms that move over the same location) produced 5 to 7 inches of rainfall across portions of Mason and Lake counties.
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.
Read the full account →Flash flooding occurred during the morning hours of the 18th across Ottawa and Kent Counties as a result of as much as 5 inches of rain between 9 p.m. EST on the 17th and 2 a.m. EST on the 18th. The heaviest band of rain fell in a band from Grand Haven east to Rockford...
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