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Families at each end of the Sherwood tornado track tell similar stories
SHERWOOD TWP. — "Everything was terrifying. I have never been so scared in my life," Jason Kohn said as he looked over his tornado-damaged Ralston Road home Wednesday morning. The 49-year-old Kohn stood in the road as he received a tornado warning on his phone. The tornado was in...
Weather service confirms EF-2 tornado Tuesday hit Sherwood Township
Officials descended on Branch County Wednesday to assess the tornado damage in Sherwood Township following Tuesday night's storms. "This is consistent with strong EF-2 tornado, damage-wise. I'm gonna guess winds around 125 to 130 mph maximum," said meteorologist Todd Holston. He and others from the National Weather Service of Northern...
St. Joseph County recovering following 2 tornadoes
In the aftermath of Tuesday’s severe weather across St. Joseph and Branch counties, a monumental clean-up effort started as daylight broke Wednesday. Meanwhile, county and local officials canvassed St. Joseph County’s hardest-hit areas – Mendon, Nottawa, Colon and Leonidas townships – also on Wednesday morning to gauge the degree of damage caused by what has now been confirmed as two tornadoes that touched down in the northeast quadrant of the county.
Watch as tornado touches down in small town
Summer isn’t quite here, but severe tornadoes are already affecting some areas of the Midwest. One such area was Southwest Michigan, which on Tuesday got struck with tornadoes so badly that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency in four counties. Video of a tornado touching down in...
NWS issues Michigan’s first ‘tornado emergency’ alert: What it means
The National Weather Service issued the first ever “tornado emergency” alert in Michigan history on Tuesday. A strong line of storms moved through West Michigan on Tuesday afternoon, triggering multiple tornado warnings, and one tornado emergency. The alert was issued for a Union City and Sherwood. It expired...
Rare “Multiple Vortexes” tornado strikes Michigan, video shows
Yesterday’s tornadic thunderstorms didn’t look like our typical short-lived, weak Michigan tornadoes. This video shows a real tornado with at times severe smaller tornadoes spinning together. This is video of the tornado that formed in St. Joseph County in far southern Michigan. The thunderstorm that spawned the tornado...
Township hears complaints about homeless
STURGIS TWP. - Several Sturgis Township residents brought to the township board Monday concerns of increasing encounters with homeless people trespassing on private property or disturbing the peace. In the end, the township board said there is little they can do if the complaints fall outside township-owned property. Jackie Persing...
Unique way to look at the tornadic supercell storms: Path of lightning strikes
The lightning strikes really increased as the thunderstorms yesterday started producing tornadoes. Let’s look at the path of those highly electrical thunderstorms. You’ll notice the tight path of a lot of lightning strikes matches the path direction and location of the tornadoes yesterday. As a thunderstorm becomes a supercell thunderstorm and begins to rotate, we often notice the lightning begins. With a tornadic storm at full strength people viewing the storm from a distance report continuous lightning.
St. Joseph Co. man recounts watching a tornado form near his home
COLON, Mich. — Homeowner Chase Royer described what he was feeling when a tornado formed just steps away from his home north of Colon on Tuesday. “I stepped outside and I kind of looking towards where they said this tornado was forming and the clouds were doing some crazy stuff. And I told my fiancé I said, come look at this. This is wild. And then as we're watching it, I'm like, That's serious. Let's get to the basement,” said Royer.
NWS: Tornado touches down near Decatur; tornado warning issued for Calhoun County
Aug. 26, 2023 storm in Delton, Michigan. Due to storms pushing across West Michigan, a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for Allegan and Van Buren Counties on April 17, 2024. (Anthony Brown/WWMT)
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