Walberg and Lindsey Tour Tornado Ravaged Areas, Walberg Dismisses Governor’s Call for Investigation Into NWS

Walberg and Lindsey tour tornado ravaged areas, Walberg dismisses governor’s call for investigation into NWS

UNION CITY, MI (WTVB) – The office of Governor Gretchen Whitmer  is demanding a federal investigation into why the National Weather Service (NWS) failed to issue a tornado watch before a series of deadly storms devastated southwest Michigan last Friday. The storms, which included an EF-3 tornado with winds reaching 160 mph, resulted in four fatalities and dozens of injuries across Branch, Cass, and St. Joseph counties. Whitmer’s spokesperson, St…

Meteorologist: EF3 tornado in Union City the earliest ever recorded in Michigan

Cleanup is underway from four tornadoes that hit Southwest Michigan on Friday, and meteorologists say the storm was one for the record books. The National Weather Service has rated the Union City tornado as an EF3 with winds of up to 160 miles an hour. Meteorologist Matt Rudkin tells us that’s highly unusual. “An EF3  over in Union City, that’s very significant for Michigan,” Rudkin said. “It’s the earliest on record, and the last time we had an…

Michigan’s Tornado is Earliest EF 3 on Record

Two weeks ago I was in the northernmost part of Lower Michigan in Gaylord, attending a remembrance event for survivors of a highly destructive ice storm that swept thru a year ago in early April, knocking out power for weeks in some cases, and causing immense damage to infrastructure, including electric transmission, that is still … Continue reading "Michigan’s Tornado is Earliest EF 3 on Record"