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BERRIEN

919803

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Event typeevent_typeSeiche
NOAA NCEI event IDncei_event_id919,803
Episode IDepisode_id152,454
Begin UTCbegin_utc2020-08-10T22:00:00+00:00
End UTCend_utc2020-08-11T09:00:00+00:00
StatestateMICHIGAN
County/zone typecz_typeZ
County/zone namecz_nameBERRIEN
Deaths directdeaths_direct0
Deaths indirectdeaths_indirect0
Injuries directinjuries_direct0
Injuries indirectinjuries_indirect0
Damage cropsdamage_crops0.00K
Weather forecast office sourcewfo_sourceEmergency Manager
Episode narrativeepisode_narrativeConvectively enhanced vorticity max lead to initiation of storms overnight Sunday across southern South Dakota. These initial storms grew upscale given concurrent downstream destabilization through northeast Nebraska and northwest Iowa. Widespread 80-100 mph winds developed through central/eastern Iowa as this derecho matured. Northern bookend and advection wing forcing led to some supercell structures across northern Illinois/southwest Wisconsin. Northern bookend turned northeast as it moved across Lake Michigan and tracked into western Michigan. As this occurred, attendant post convective wake low weakened as it crossed the lake. Thus the local area did not experience the 80 to 100 mph winds that N IL/E IA experienced. However the resultant slowing and breakup of the line as it moved across northwest Indiana/SW Michigan, yielded a LEWP and subsequent multiple small scale circulations developing along the line. These meso-vortices were associated with pockets of enhanced wind damage and brief tornado occurrences.
Event narrativeevent_narrativeThe initial gust front passed the Cook Buoy (45026) near Stevensville, MI around 5:55 pm when waves were reportedly one foot. By 6:20 pm, waves had climbed to four feet and a meteotsunami was reported by an off-duty NWS employee who was at Lion���s Park Beach. Water levels rose approximately one and one half foot above the mean levels by that time, and flooding was reported along Lion���s Park Drive through the evening. Wave heights at the Cook Buoy peaked at around five feet at 8:40 pm. ||According to the Berrien County EMA, there was lakeshore flooding also reported in New Buffalo, MI, which lasted into the late evening hours. A seiche could be seen at various water level gauges across Lake Michigan into the next day (Tuesday August 11th, 2020), with the most extreme fluctuations extending from shortly after the storm passed until about 5 am EDT. Lesser fluctuations of up to one foot continued through around 10 am EDT. ||No specific damage amounts were noted as near record high water levels and periodic high wave action continue to cause extensive erosion.
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