Tornado, Presque Isle
- When
- August 8, 11:40 AM EST
- Where
- Presque Isle County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.7 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 45.420, -83.830
Tornado in Michigan, August 8, 1986
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Rhode Island, August 8, 1986
- Tornado and Hail in Massachusetts, August 8, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 8, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 8, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 8, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Maine, August 8, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 8, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 8, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, August 8, 1986
- Damaging Wind in Connecticut, August 8, 1986
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 8, 1986
- Hail in Missouri, August 8, 1986
More
Every storm in Michigan in 1986Every state in 1986This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Michigan, 1986Warnings in Michigan, August 1986
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10052211.