PROJECT ALERT NOTICE (MI) Widespread minor flooding in central and northern Michigan

Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 10:33:23 EDT

Summary: Widespread action stage to minor flooding is continuing in parts of Michigan as a result of recent warm weather, rain, and snowmelt.

In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan several days of rainfall, warmer temperatures, and snowmelt has led to widespread high streamflows. As recently as a month ago much of the northern part of the Upper Peninsula had 8-15 inches of snow water equivalent (SWE). Fortunately, the past month has been cool enough that much of the snow has slowly melted reducing the impact of the high SWE somewhat.

Eleven USGS gages utilized by NWS are currently in near- to minor-flood stage.

No gages have been damaged. Today, a single person crew is making streamflow measurement(s) at one of the new sites with period-of-record flows in the central Upper Peninsula and a two-person team is measuring very high flows in the Eastern Upper Peninsula.

In the central Lower Peninsula four sites are receding slowly but still near NWS flood stage.

No additional postings to Project Alert will be made after today unless additional precipitation causes streamflows to rise back into flood stage.