These threats were elevated quickly early Monday afternoon as a derecho began forming over Iowa and tracking eastward over northern Illinois producing between 70 and 100 mph winds.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Metro Detroit Weather: Severe storms possible Monday night . LIVE UPDATES: Risk for severe weather in West Michigan today. Severe thunderstorms swept through northern Michigan on Saturday morning.
through at least Friday. This feature should track northeast towards Lake Superior. Bill’s Blog. … Two primary corridors of severe potential are expected through tonight. afternoon. They are indeed rare, but they do happen. Copyright © All rights reserved. See the image below issued this afternoon from The Storm Prediction Center. Holland Lake Michigan. Recall that a derecho is well defined line of very strong to severe storms with intense winds that typically can move over long distances. You can see the swath of heavy rain that fell, mainly in Van Buren County. Other parts of our viewing audience are in a "SLIGHT" risk.
Up to golf ball size hail around 1.5 inches. See the map below. The scope of this system is huge and is potentially affecting millions, although the severe derecho winds affect a much smaller defined area.
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Below are the possible severe weather threats we could see in West Michigan from these storms. A meteotsunami is a large wave (or waves) driven by air pressure drops and disturbances associated with fast moving strong to severe thunderstorms, squalls, derechos, or fronts. Michigan News; Allegan County; Barry County; Grand Rapids; Kalamazoo & Battle Creek; Kent County; Sports; Weather; Search for: Uncategorized Weather Severe Weather This Week 4 hours ago Michigan Daily News . While it remains questionable whether this derecho can remain intact and affect West Michigan, other individual thunderstorm cells may form separate from the derecho and generate severe thunderstorm warnings, damaging straight line winds, and perhaps some isolated large hail. That said, we are also concerned about the possibility of a meteotsunami. Surrounding the Enhanced Risk Area is a Slight Risk Area (in yellow on the map) that includes the area south of a line from Grand Haven to west of Coldwater.
See images below from our forecast model valid at 6 P.M. and again and 8 P.M.SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES have already been issued from the U.P. Make sure to keep an eye to the sky and have multiple ways to receive severe weather warnings and information either from our FOX 17 mobile weather APP,
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We had such an event in 1998.
Latest News. It was a close call with this lightning strike at Intermediate Lake in Antrim County, MI this morning. SPC says: “We have a chance of a shower or storm this afternoon/tonight, then dry weather will dominate from tomorrow (Tue.) This is the Severe Weather Outlook Map from the Storm Prediction Center for this (Mon.) There was a trace at the Ford Airport in Grand Rapids. Seasonal, Severe, Weather. Posted: Aug 10, 2020 / 09:19 AM EDT / Updated: Aug 10, 2020 / 10:54 AM EDT. The threat of severe weather has expired, however, the National Weather Service said after storms moved through the state Monday evening, producing flash flood threats in parts of central Michigan. Time-series of the MPX VWP has indicated widely varying low-level wind profiles ahead of the MCV, but has had a consistent signal for around 40-kt 0-6 km shear. Grand Rapids, MI | Fox17 | 1h.
Up to golf ball size hail around 1.5 inches.