Waterspout, Huron
- When
- June 30, 9:30 AM EST
- Where
- Huron County, 5 mi NW of Sebewaing
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.910, -82.855 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Tornado and Waterspout in Michigan, June 30, 1998
A cold front passed through southeast Michigan around daybreak. Unseasonably cool air was ushered in aloft, maintaining some instability.
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
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 cold front passed through southeast Michigan around daybreak. Unseasonably cool air was ushered in aloft, maintaining some instability. A few showers developed in the Saginaw Bay area during the morning hours. Low level convergence along a lake breeze front provided additional support for precipitation. A number of funnel clouds were reported with these showers in Tuscola and Huron Counties. A brief touchdown was observed by a law enforcement official southwest of Cass City, where a residence suffered minor damage. Earlier, a waterspout had been observed from Sebewaing over Saginaw Bay.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 waterspout, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Tuscola
- When
- June 30, 9:45 AM EST
- Where
- Tuscola County, 4 mi SW of Cass City
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 43.570, -83.220
What these are
- Waterspout
- A tornado over water. One that moves ashore is filed as a tornado from the coastline on.
- 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
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- Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 30, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 30, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 30, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New York, June 30, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 30, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in Pennsylvania, June 30, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 30, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New York, June 30, 1998
More
Every storm in Michigan in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Michigan, 1998Warnings in Michigan, June 1998
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: 5649424, 5649423.