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Just an hour after a large tornado decimated Portage, just south of Kalamazoo, the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids reported a second tornado touching down near Portage at approximately 7: ...
"The FedEx building in Portage sustained significant damage and is still an active scene," she said. A tornado destroyed entire residences at Pavilion Estates Mobile Home Park in Kalamazoo County ...
In a Tuesday night news conference, Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller said a tornado tore through the county, sweeping across the area from Texas Township, through Portage and into Pavilion ...
A tornado damage survey, also known as a storm damage assessment, is a type of land survey that is conducted to determine the damage caused by tornadoes, and to give them ratings on the Enhanced Fujita scale. Damage surveys have been used since the 18th century to determine tornado-caused damage, and have become increasingly common following ...
The Kalamazoo Tornado of 1980 struck downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Tuesday, May 13, 1980. The tornado, which touched down at 4:09 pm, was rated F3 on the Fujita scale. The tornado killed 5 people and injured 79. Damage was estimated at $50,000,000, which included $1,800,000 in vehicle damage. [1] [2]
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 ...
Several tornadoes hit Michigan on Tuesday, with one twister pummeling a mobile home park in the southern part of the state, leaving a dozen people hurt and rescuers looking for more possible victims.
This is dependent on how damages are assessed by certain agencies as well as the significance of certain events (e.g. 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak when seven tornadoes struck the city of Grand Island, Nebraska in the same night; and the Dunrobin—Ottawa, Ontario—Gatineau, Quebec, Canada tornadoes in 2018 — of which there were seven ...