Death and Unprecedented Damage From the Flood of 1986 in Central Lower Michigan Along With Other Notable Floods!

[wxhstn74]

http://weatherhistorian.blogspot.com/2014/08/death-and-unprecendented-damage-from.html

[Harry]

This ( Sept 1986 ) was the rainfall record holder ( monthly ) till 2008 ( September with a foot of rain ) thanks to two tropical systems from the Gulf and Pacific.

[wxhstn74]

Harry; from my 2008 Annual Summary for Flint/Saginaw

Autumn – Early Winter 2008:

Early Autumn of 2008 also started out extremely wet across Southeast

Lower Michigan with t

he combination of tropical moisture and a slow

moving frontal system. Days of heavy rain, led to the third wettest on

record at Flint with 8.64" of rain but

lesser intense rains fell at Saginaw,

a little more than half that amount /4

.55/. Detroit saw its sixth wettest

September on record with 5.99 inches

The worst of the rains came on t

he 13-14th when a sl

ow moving cold

front encountered a tropical plume of mo

isture laden air left over from

tropical storms Lowell and Ike. Rainfa

ll, periodically falling in torrential

downpours, occurred much of the two day

period. Officially at Flint

Bishop Airport, 2.04" fell on t

he 13th which established the second

daily, rainfall record in the month. Then, if that wasn`t enough, on the

14

th

the Flint area was deluged again with even more rain leading to

another daily record rainfall with 2.

63". At the same

time in Saginaw,

over an inch of rain /1.11"/ fell on the 13th, while another one and three

quarter inches /1.77"/ created a daily rainfall record on the 14th. In a

roughly 52 hour time span, from

3pm Friday until 7PM Sunday,

numerous locations in Southeas

t Lower Michigan recorded several

inches of rain. Some of the highest totals were found across the

Saginaw Valley region with over 8" of

rain at Montrose. More about

the storm and map of the rainfall can be found at:

www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/?n=sept08rain

.

 

www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/?n=sept08rain

.

[Harry]

 

Harry; from my 2008 Annual Summary for Flint/Saginaw

Autumn – Early Winter 2008:

Early Autumn of 2008 also started out extremely wet across Southeast

Lower Michigan with t

he combination of tropical moisture and a slow

moving frontal system. Days of heavy rain, led to the third wettest on

record at Flint with 8.64" of rain but

lesser intense rains fell at Saginaw,

a little more than half that amount /4

.55/. Detroit saw its sixth wettest

September on record with 5.99 inches

The worst of the rains came on t

he 13-14th when a sl

ow moving cold

front encountered a tropical plume of mo

isture laden air left over from

tropical storms Lowell and Ike. Rainfa

ll, periodically falling in torrential

downpours, occurred much of the two day

period. Officially at Flint

Bishop Airport, 2.04" fell on t

he 13th which established the second

daily, rainfall record in the month. Then, if that wasn`t enough, on the

14

th

the Flint area was deluged again with even more rain leading to

another daily record rainfall with 2.

63". At the same

time in Saginaw,

over an inch of rain /1.11"/ fell on the 13th, while another one and three

quarter inches /1.77"/ created a daily rainfall record on the 14th. In a

roughly 52 hour time span, from

3pm Friday until 7PM Sunday,

numerous locations in Southeas

t Lower Michigan recorded several

inches of rain. Some of the highest totals were found across the

Saginaw Valley region with over 8" of

rain at Montrose. More about

the storm and map of the rainfall can be found at:

www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/?n=sept08rain

.

 

www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/?n=sept08rain

.

 

 

 

Yep. The heaviest rains were from the Saginaw Valley out this way. While BC got a foot of rain for the month i believe a few other spots out this way exceeded it. Gull Lake for instance recorded 14.04 for the month. AMAZINGLY there was not much flooding here except in the normal poor drainage spots ( none of the rivers came out of their banks here but did so upstream close to Kalamazoo ) from the deluge via the two tropical systems that dropped most of the rainfall ( about 9 inches between both systems ) for the month here.