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While tornado-forecasting equipment has improved “tenfold” over the past few decades, relying on a combination of weather radar and local observations, Anderson said short-lived tornadoes can ...
• One Michigan town may have been hit twice: At least one tornado, possibly two, hit Portage Tuesday evening, as the area faced two tornado warnings in just over an hour, the National Weather ...
At least two tornadoes, perhaps more, touched down in Michigan starting at about 6 p.m.: one — maybe two — in Portage and another in St. Joseph and Branch counties, National Weather Service ...
The severe weather follows devastating overnight tornadoes in Michigan. The city of Portage, about 100 miles west of Ann Arbor, was hit with two tornadoes, Mayor Patricia M. Randall said in a ...
At this point, the tornado began to take in copious amounts of dust and grew into a large wedge tornado, captured on video by many storm chasers in the area. The tornado began to leave cycloidal scour marks in farm fields, indicating the presence of multiple-vortices within the main circulation. It then narrowly missed the small city of Keota ...
The tornado traveled 19.57 mi (31.49 km) over a span of 20 minutes, reaching a peak width of 300 yd (270 m). It caused two indirect fatalities; the first one occurred in Morehouse when a home burned down due to an unattended candle during a power outage, killing the woman inside.
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.
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 ...