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The strongest tornadoes occurred in Illinois, including an F4 tornado in Sadorus, but one F4 tornado came very close to Lafayette, Indiana. The Metro Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield Township, Michigan experienced an F4 tornado on March 20, it is to date the last tornado stronger than an F3 to strike the Metro Detroit area. [ 8 ]
The tornado injured an estimated 117 people and inflicted $17.6 million (1953 USD) on both of the towns. June 8, 1953 – A violent F4 tornado hit Temperance, killing 4 people and destroying 14 houses. The tornado caused an estimated $250,000 (1953 USD) in damages, and was one of multiple deadly tornadoes in Michigan on June 8.
List of tornadoes in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966; Tornado outbreak of April 21–24, 1968; 1974 Super Outbreak; Tornado outbreak of April 1–2, 1974; 1980 Kalamazoo tornado; Tornado outbreak of July 1–3, 1997; Late-May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho; List of tornadoes in the 1999 Oklahoma ...
116 people died when an F5 tornado tore through Flint, Michigan, on June 8, 1953. The tornado was about half a mile wide and was on the ground for 27 miles. Of the 116 fatalities, 113 occurred ...
These are the extremes in weather records for Michigan, ... Most fatalities single tornado: 116: June 8, 1953: Genesee County, Lapeer County [5] [6] References
For the first time in state history, a tornado emergency was issued as at least two tornadoes, perhaps more, touched down in Michigan starting at about 6 p.m.: one — maybe two — in Portage ...
In West Michigan, multiple tornadoes touched down in Kalamazoo County, near Portage, as well as one in Calhoun County. In southeast Michigan, a tornado watch is active in Lenawee, Monroe and ...
Outbreak produced the Candlestick Park tornado, which was an extremely violent F5 tornado or tornado family that killed 58 people and traveled 202.5 mi (325.9 km) across Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of the longest such paths on record and one of only four official F5 tornadoes to hit Mississippi.