Tornado in the U P of Michigan

[Loopy]

This happened  probably more than 60 miles south of where I live and about half that from Roseanne’s.

 

https://www.upmatters.com/news/reports-of-tornado-in-delta-county/?fbclid=IwAR0-AhFfvHjDjgK2oOkuH27UuYPZD--_nZD8VGI2ebFm88Jux6etXG7oF1c
 

UPDATE 8/31/20, 6:24 p.m. : The Delta County Sheriff’s Office released a statement on its Facebook “A tornado touched down on US-2 near K Ln taking down some power lines and damaging property in that area. Some storage units at the Pine Ridge Storage were damaged. A detour has been set up on J.5 Rd to Old State Rd to K.5 Rd. If traveling through that area, please use a different route if possible.”

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DELTA COUNTY, Mich. (WJMN) – According to the Escanaba Department of Public Safety, there have been reports of a tornado in the Escanaba area.

At approximately 5:45 p.m., reports say a tornado touched down about three miles west of Escanaba. 

There is a report of debris in the roadway on US – 2 west of Escanaba between J.5 Road and K.5 Road in Wells Township.

[Loopy]

Not the best video but it does confirm that it was a tornado and not just wind damage. The people that took the video were too far away, but the meteorologist does paint things out. 

 

Does have the usual advertisement.

 

Tornadoes are quite rare in Michigan but they do happen.
 

 

https://www.upmatters.com/south-central-up/tornado-spotted-west-of-escanaba/?fbclid=IwAR058twNqPXy_-aC5QL6K0jRZ0HgKXPwgmLxdP1AvEdofe_0jfajFEAVdcE

[Friends just call me Ross]

I couldn't find the video.  

[Loopy]

10 minutes ago, Friends just call me Ross said:

I couldn't find the video.  

Huh! There is a bit of a lag time before it appears. It is at the top. 🤷‍♀️ 
 

 

[Friends just call me Ross]

18 minutes ago, Loopy said:

Huh! There is a bit of a lag time before it appears. It is at the top. 🤷‍♀️ 
 

 

Oh.  Okay.  I'll try again.

[Friends just call me Ross]

Too many ads on Channel 3's webpage, but I found the video on YouTube:

 

[Loopy]

Agreed about the ads. 
 

That works for me. 😁😁😁😁

[Loopy]

Confirmed that this tornado was an EF-1. Pics of the damage in article.

 

https://www.radioresultsnetwork.com/2020/09/01/national-weather-service-confirms-tornado-near-escanaba/

 

The National Weather Service confirms that a small EF-1 tornado touched down west of Escanaba Monday evening, causing damage to a storage facility and knocking out power to people living in the Hyde area.

Warning coordination meteorologist Matt Zika at the Marquette office says there were no watches or warnings in effect when the tornado quickly developed and briefly touched down along US-2 about three miles west of Escanaba at 5:40 p.m.

“It was a surprise for many, and it caught us weather folks a little by surprise,” Zika said. “We weren’t predetermined to have a significant severe weather type of day. It was very quick spin-up, short-lived tornado.”

“There were several very unique circumstances that set up yesterday. Number one, the storm that developed that produced the tornado actually technically wasn’t called a thunderstorm because there was no lightning in it. The tops of the clouds were way lower to the ground than what we’re used to seeing with thunderstorms that do produce tornadoes. However, there was enough wind energy, or changing of wind direction with height in the atmosphere. It was enough to cause enough rotation to spin up a very brief tornado.”

Zika says they used a combination of social media videos from people who were traveling on US-2, and photos from the damage on the ground, to make the confirmation.

“We could see rotating wall cloud, and the funnel just starting to come down there right around the US-2 area where the initial touchdown was,” Zika said. “In addition, we’ve had some video from drone footage flown over the path of the tornado, where we could see the damage and you could see the trees laying in the direction that definitely confirms that it was a tornado.”

He says it was the third tornado to pop up this summer in the Upper Peninsula, with the other two reported in Iron County on August 9.

The tornado had estimated winds of 95 miles per hour, which puts it as an EF-1, the weakest on the Fujita-Pearson scale of 0 to 5. The path for it being on the ground was about a half-mile, which he says is “very brief and short-lived”.