Event narrative (NOAA)
A wave of low pressure moving along a slow moving front and the remnants of Hurricane Ike brought heavy rain to Southwest Lower Michigan. The rain started on the twelfth and persisted through the thirteenth and fourteenth. ||Rainfall totals were impressive and in excess of ten inches across portions of Kalamazoo county, including a report of 10.5 inches at Augusta. The heaviest rain occurred along and just north of the Interstate 94 corridor across northern and central Kalamazoo county.||A local state of emergency was declared for Kalamazoo county and moderate river flooding occurred on the Kalamazoo river at Comstock. Damage to public infrastructure (mostly road and bridge washouts) and to homes from flooding was estimated to exceed 11 million dollars. ||The worst flooding occurred ne
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.