Tornado, Oakland
- When
- June 12, 11:15 AM EST
- Where
- Oakland County, Novi
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Coordinates
- 42.480, -83.470
Tornado in Michigan, June 12, 1996
A tornado touched down briefly at a construction site at Ten Mile Road and Taft Road, in Novi. The tornado knocked a trailer off of its foundation.
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
- $2,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS DTX wrote it up.
A tornado touched down briefly at a construction site at Ten Mile Road and Taft Road, in Novi. The tornado knocked a trailer off of its foundation. Several windows were blown out, and construction materials were strewn throughout the subdivision.
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 24 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:13 UTC.
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
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 12 to 13, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, June 12, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, June 12, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 12, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Vermont, June 12, 1996
- Flash Flood in New Jersey, June 12 to 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, June 12, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 12, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 12, 1996
- Flash Flood in Vermont, June 12, 1996
- Flash Flood in Vermont, June 12, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 12, 1996
More
Every storm in Michigan in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Michigan, 1996Warnings in Michigan, June 1996
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: 5551674.