OT: Severe Weather/Possible Tornado Strikes near Williamston
Looks like the Lansing area got hit pretty hard. Reports of 70 plus mph winds at Capital City International Airport.
August 24th, 2023 at 10:18 PM ^
Strong winds, hail and a power outage for me in Northern Macomb county. Stay safe everyone.
August 24th, 2023 at 10:20 PM ^
Hoping there are no injuries or fatalities.
August 24th, 2023 at 10:27 PM ^
Currently in my basement with my family in Northville.
August 24th, 2023 at 11:56 PM ^
+1 for duck and cover blogging
August 24th, 2023 at 10:33 PM ^
Grand Rapids (GRR) had a dew point of 81 earlier today. That is flat-out absurd for Michigan*. Crazy high levels of instability in the atmosphere.
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*The highest I can recall for MI was an 80 dew point at DTW on 14-July-1995, one of Detroit's most infamous hot and humid weather days ever. No storms exploded that day because the atmospheric cap was so strong. But if it had (like it did the afternoon before), whoa.
August 24th, 2023 at 10:45 PM ^
That is crazy. Highest dew point I’ve seen around here is low 70s.
August 24th, 2023 at 10:58 PM ^
According to WOODTV, the dew point record in GR was broken today (previously held by the date you mention) and was a major contributor to tonight's severe weather.
August 24th, 2023 at 11:08 PM ^
I can verify this. Because of persistent clouds until late afternoon, the temperature only reached the mid 80s here in northern Kent County, but I saw on both my weather apps a dew point reading of 80°! (and yesterday a 79° dew point reported). But because the temperature was 10°-15° cooler all afternoon than yesterday, I got in a 16 mile ride on the local bike trail, arriving home with my clothes soaked in sweat.
And then this evening we had a couple tornadoes reported in Kent County, and severe storms throughout the county. There's lots of downed trees and power lines, numerous homes and businesses damaged in the same Alpine Township area of the infamous 1965 Palm Sunday tornado.
August 24th, 2023 at 11:51 PM ^
Man. 16 mile bike ride in 85 temp/80 dew point (which is also 85 temp/85% humidity) --- you are a trooper. I'm sweating just thinking about that.
August 25th, 2023 at 12:30 AM ^
I used to ride regularly in the California desert (I was never great or anything and I ride a lot less frequently now, alas) and I would absolutely prefer riding in 100 degree sun with the dry desert air than riding in that.
August 25th, 2023 at 12:45 AM ^
+10000000. A blazing 105 and 20% humidity in the Antelope Valley any day over that.
Actually: 70 degrees and a breeze off the Pacific in Ventura --- let's take that.
August 25th, 2023 at 1:39 AM ^
TBH, I took it at a relatively relaxed pace, averaging 5:40/mile over 16.4 miles---I usually average around 5:10/mile or less on my Trek 24-speed hybrid mountain bike and the trail is mostly flat. And when I started today's ride it was 79° and the dew point 78°---an hour and a half later when I finished, it was up to the 85° temp/80° dew point.
Yesterday (Wednesday), OTOH, it was still 93° when I hit the trail just 20 minutes before sundown, with a heat index of 107. I only did 5.6 miles in that soup.
August 25th, 2023 at 7:47 AM ^
Temp plus dew point over 140 is uncomfortable, over 150 very uncomfortable, over 160 is Carolina/Florida craziness that I only run in when I'm on vacation there.
August 25th, 2023 at 9:20 AM ^
Dew point in New Bern last week was 84. That’s a record for me. Carolina summers suck.
August 25th, 2023 at 11:59 AM ^
Yep, I go to Emerald Isle right by you every year. It's rough if you aren't on the beach/in the water.
August 25th, 2023 at 12:50 AM ^
I did an ~8 mile ride out on North Campus between 6 and 7 tonight. Humidity was crazy high but I like to sweat so it was great. Beers tasted fabulous afterwards.
August 25th, 2023 at 11:09 AM ^
Kind of thinking Comstock Park is the Bermuda triangle of tornadoes for West Michigan.
August 24th, 2023 at 10:36 PM ^
Tornado warning in Wayne be careful everyone
August 24th, 2023 at 10:40 PM ^
The worst of the storm appears to be on its way out here in AA/Saline. We had some very strong winds and heavy rain for a while there. Have a feeling there willl be many tree limbs down in the morning.
August 24th, 2023 at 11:04 PM ^
My team somehow luckily was able to get our game in tonight. As we were cleaning up the field the lightning began. My entire block is flooded now. Stay safe y’all!
August 24th, 2023 at 11:16 PM ^
Had some 3" to 4" limbs come down here in Superior Township.
August 24th, 2023 at 11:49 PM ^
70+ MPH winds is not something to mess around with. Stay safe, Michiganders.
August 25th, 2023 at 12:47 AM ^
Had to drive to Hartland to put my awnings in on my camper. It got insane just as i got there. No damage and I guess it was fun to be Lieutenant Dan for about 90 seconds.
Came back home and the power is out. Should have just stayed out at the camper.
August 25th, 2023 at 7:21 AM ^
Yup! I’m a Williamston resident and there are a lot of bad reports, specifically around I-96. Ingham county emergency services requested that people not call unless it was a major emergency because all resources were/are tied up.
August 25th, 2023 at 7:28 AM ^
My wife said there were reports of cars in trees, semis overturned, etc. all along I-96 in Williamston. Safe to say I’ve never experienced a storm this severe.
August 25th, 2023 at 8:19 AM ^
The Belmont area north of Grand Rapids had a spotter report a tornado touched down last night. Reported winds of 104 mph. I drove down 7 Mile between Alpine and Pine Island and it’s unreal.
August 25th, 2023 at 11:24 AM ^
Reports of a tornado briefly touching down at the Arctic Edge parking lot in Canton last night. We were definitely in the basement in my house in Canton from 10:15 to 11:00, but avoided the worst of it.
And this was the same day after Canton saw many streets with a foot of standing water in the morning. It has been quite the eventful August.
August 25th, 2023 at 11:42 AM ^
That's crazy. I'm in Canton, too, about 3 miles north of Arctic Edge. Right before the tornado warning was issued, we moved the kids down to our basement and just all slept down there. Made sense especially with the power out. The kids didn't know anything until they woke up this morning. Glad we were safe, especially with the weather from the night before. 8" of rain in 2 days! Unreal.
August 25th, 2023 at 11:45 AM ^
My street in Canton had water halfway up our driveway for most of the day Thursday,
August 25th, 2023 at 12:01 PM ^
Same, the road in front of my house was totally impassible until about noon yesterday. It was coming over the curb onto our front lawn, but given the slope of the road, it was at least 2 feet deep further down.
August 25th, 2023 at 12:20 PM ^
Similar, we had water slightly up on our driveway, but not quite up to the sidewalk. About a foot of water in the street on Saltz between Sheldon and Morton-Taylor.
August 25th, 2023 at 11:51 AM ^
This is a bit dated - but, there are areas where power is out in Ann Arbor. So, if you have kids who have already moved into a house or apartment - they may be without power for parts of the day. OR - depending on Detroit Edison's responsiveness - they could be out of power until some time tomorrow.
August 25th, 2023 at 12:12 PM ^
Live in Brighton. You could see the tornado on radar as a round hole in the heavy precip. First time in 20 years I've headed for the basement. By the time it got to us, it was not tornadic any longer, but super windy and lots of lightning. Power stayed on, internet/cable went out.
August 25th, 2023 at 1:54 PM ^
Probably the worst back-to-back nights of severe weather I've seen. Last night was definitely the worst storm here since I've been back. West of us by 20 miles there were reports of 80 mph straight-line winds, and the dew point definitely hit 80 here. Virtually unheard of.
August 25th, 2023 at 8:14 PM ^
It was an EF-2 tornado near Williamston. [MLive link]
There were EF-1s N of Grand Rapids, near Belleville and Newport.
EF-0 at Canton.
August 25th, 2023 at 8:53 PM ^
Glad I didn’t walk all the way down to my basement for no reason.