Clearing - Weather History — The Michigan Weather Center

2022-06-16 08:10:09 By : Mr. Jeremy Yuan

We have 80° at 3 am this morning with some rain moving through SW Michigan.  Yesterday’s high was 93° and the low was 72°.  We will see gradual clearing today with highs in the mid-80s.

1996 : Extensive flash flooding in and around Mt. Pleasant was the result of 1.82 inches of rainfall in 30 minutes with storm totals exceeding 2 inches. At one point parking lots had water 12 inches deep, several fields and ditches were flooded, and some motor homes and campers were set afloat.

1998 : A tornado touched down in Bedford Township in northwest Calhoun County, doing minor damage to a few homes and shearing off trees like a large weed whacker.

2008 : Historic flash flooding results from up to a foot of rain near Ludington and Manistee. More than 40 roads were washed out and some of them were not repaired for several months. The torrential rains are preceded by a severe thunderstorm that drops two tornadoes. The first tornado came ashore north of Ludington at the Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness Area, downing hundreds of trees. A second tornado hit near Stronach in Manistee County.

1900 : A tornado touched down near Marshall and passed north of Battle Creek, ending near Bellevue. Barns were destroyed at several farms along the path of the storm.

1994 : A tornado struck Jackson County, producing a 16-mile damage path and injuring 2 people. More than a dozen homes were damaged or destroyed, along with other buildings.

2004 : Severe weather struck across the region and a weak tornado touched down briefly in a field one mile northeast of Stanton in Montcalm County

1894 : A week-long heat wave was underway with temperatures at or above 90 degrees across much of the region from June 10th to June 16th. Grand Rapids hit 95 degrees on the 13th, 96 degrees on the 14th and 97 degrees on the 15th.

1991 : A tornado injures one person and damages several homes east of Jackson.

1960 : More than 20 houses sustain damage as a tornado hits the southern part of the city of Jackson, Michigan.

1976 : Tornadoes caused a quarter-million dollars in damage in Lower Michigan. In Kent County, a barn is destroyed and two houses were damaged by a tornado near Cedar Springs. In Allegan and Ottawa Counties, several buildings are damaged along a twelve-mile path, ending just south of Jenison. Mobile homes are damaged near Walton in Wexford County.

1982 : A series of strong tornadoes struck central Lower Michigan. In Gratiot County, several homes were damaged, two of them severely as a tornado moved from near Pompeii to North Star. In Jackson County, a tornado kills one person and injures another as it moves about 5 miles west of Munith.

1974 : Cool and cloudy weather prevailed for the middle of June with high temperatures only in the middle 50s across the region on both June 16th and 17th.

1975 : A tornado struck two miles northeast of Newaygo. A tree fell on and killed a 14-year-old girl who was camping with her parents. Tornadoes also hit Roscommon County, where damage was done to some boats on the southwest shore of Houghton Lake. Another tornado damaged several farm buildings north of Zeeland in Ottawa County.

1992 : Over a dozen, mostly weak tornadoes struck across Lower Michigan, including south of Coopersville in Ottawa County, near Cedar Springs in Kent County, Harrison in Clare County and Pewamo in Ionia County.

1976 : Three tornadoes cause minor damage across Lower Michigan. The first tornado moved northwest of Lansing, damaging a house and destroying a barn and shed. Another tornado blew down barns near Reese in Saginaw County. The final tornado destroyed a barn and damaged a garage in Gladwin County, north of Edenville.

1994 : An early-season heat wave peaked with temperatures in the mid and upper 90s across the region. The temperature hit 98 at Lansing, 96 at Grand Rapids and 91 at Muskegon.

On June 12, 2021, an isolated supercell developed near Mount Pleasant and tracked south-southeast toward Ann Arbor during the late afternoon and evening. This storm produced baseball-sized hail in Ovid (Clinton County) and golf ball-sized hail near Laingsburg (Shiawassee County) as well as isolated wind damage to trees in its path.

On June 12, 1984, an F3 tornado hit Bay County at 6:20 PM and caused $2,500,000 in damage. Two individuals were reported injured, but there were no deaths. This was the strongest tornado ever reported in Bay County.

On June 13, 2004, an F1 tornado hit Huron County at 5:00 PM, causing $25,000 in damage. One property in this county lost 44 trees because of this tornado; many of the trees were very large and older than 100 years!

On June 14, 1966, an F2 tornado hit Wayne County and caused $3,000 in damage.

On June 15, 1982, an F3 tornado struck Washtenaw County. The tornado moved from 5 miles west-southwest of Munith in Jackson County to 8 miles northwest of Chelsea. The tornado was 1500 feet wide, and it resulted in one death and one injury in Jackson County. Overall, 7 houses were destroyed and 15 buildings were damaged by the tornado.

On June 16, 1998, lightning struck and killed a person at 6 PM in Wayne County.

On June 17, 2009, three to six inches of rain fell in and around the I 69 corridor during the daytime hours including 3.46 inches at Flint. That made it the 2nd wettest June day and the 9th wettest day all-time for Flint. This amount of rain, coupled with the wet spring, lead to flooding across a few counties. Road closures and basement flooding were common.

On June 17, 1992, 10 tornadoes touched down in Southeast Lower Michigan as a squall line ripped across the region. All of the tornadoes were rated F0 and F1. Temperatures ahead of the squall line soared into the 90s which was one of only three such days during the cold summer of 1992.

Also on this date in 1935, the record for the greatest amount of precipitation for the month of June in Saginaw was reached, with a rainfall estimate of 2.98 inches.

On June 18, 2014, As a line of thunderstorms moved through Southeast Michigan, Adrian airport measured a severe thunderstorm wind gust of 81 mph!

Also on June 18, 2010, a severe squall line developed over Northern Illinois and raced across Southern Lower Michigan. The line of severe thunderstorms produced 28 reports of severe winds and wind damage, mostly along and south of highway M-59. Significant winds in excess of 70 mph were noted from the wind damage in Huntington Woods.

Also on June 18, 1999, Flint had a record cold temperature of 41 degrees, breaking the old record of 43 degrees set back in 1986.

Severe Thunderstorm Warning ...a Severe Thunderstorm Warning Remains In Effect Until 415 Am Edt For Northeastern Gratiot County... At 354 Am Edt, A Severe Thunderstorm Was Located 8 Miles East Of Pleasant Valley, Or 9 Miles South Of Sanford, Moving Northeast At 50 Mph. Hazard...60 Mph Wind Gusts And Quarter Size Hail. ...Read More. Effective: June 16, 2022 at 3:54am Expires: June 16, 2022 at 4:15am Target Area: Gratiot

Severe Thunderstorm Warning The National Weather Service In Detroit/pontiac Has Issued A * Severe Thunderstorm Warning For... Southern Bay County In Southeastern Michigan... Saginaw County In Southeastern Michigan... Southern Midland County In Southeastern Michigan... * Until 445 Am Edt. ...Read More. Effective: June 16, 2022 at 3:49am Expires: June 16, 2022 at 4:45am Target Area: Bay; Midland; Saginaw

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