Tornado, Genesee
- When
- June 7, 5:15 PM EST
- Where
- Genesee County, 4 mi SW of Flint
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.000, -83.730
Tornado in Michigan, June 7, 1996
FAA personnel reported that a tornado briefly touched down 1 1/2 miles southeast of the runway at Flint's Bishop Airport. No damage was reported.
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
- None recorded
- 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.
FAA personnel reported that a tornado briefly touched down 1 1/2 miles southeast of the runway at Flint's Bishop Airport. No damage was reported.
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:12 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
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 7, 1996
- Hail in Texas, June 7, 1996
- Flood in Wisconsin, June 7, 1996
- Flash Flood in Texas, June 7, 1996
- Hail in Texas, June 7, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Mississippi, June 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 7, 1996
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, June 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 7, 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: 5551673.