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Storm reports

SPC’s preliminary reports of tornadoes, damaging wind and hail in Michigan, for the period beginning Fri 16 Oct at 12Z.

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Reporting period: to . SPC counts a storm day from 12Z to 12Z, morning to morning across the U.S., so it crosses local midnight.

0 reports in Michigan

  • 0 tornado reports
  • 0 wind reports
  • 0 hail reports

A count of reports, not of storms: one storm can produce several, a tornado report is not a confirmed tornado, and a report is not a damage total.

Tornado Wind Hail. A heavier outline marks SPC’s significant reports. Every report in the table is drawn.

About these reports

  • Preliminary. These are local storm reports SPC gathers from NWS offices as they arrive: spotters, the public, emergency managers, the media. They are revised later and are not the official record (NCEI’s Storm Data is).
  • Not a count of storms. One storm can produce many reports, and nobody reports what nobody saw: a short list is not proof of a quiet day.
  • Tornado reports are not confirmed tornadoes. A rating comes from a later NWS survey; until then a report is “not rated”.
  • Measured or estimated? SPC’s file does not say whether a gust was measured or estimated. Where the office said, it is in the comment.
  • Corrections have no field of their own in SPC’s file. A report whose comment begins “Corrects previous” says it corrects an earlier one, and is flagged; the earlier report may still be listed. A row repeated exactly is flagged as listed twice, and kept.
  • Office is the three letters SPC ends a comment with: the NWS office that sent the report.

SPC’s storm reports page · Data: NOAA/SPC

The reports

SPC’s file lists no reports in Michigan for this period. 33 reports elsewhere: every state.

Michigan briefing

Not an official warning service. Warnings and watches are the National Weather Service’s, outlooks and reports the Storm Prediction Center’s and the Weather Prediction Center’s (Data: NOAA/NWS, NOAA/SPC, NOAA/WPC). When a warning is issued for you, act on it, and use weather.gov or a NOAA Weather Radio for where you are.