10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 10:59 AM EST, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1159 AM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003 ONE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS PUSHING EAST OF BTL AND AMN. BEHIND THIS...SKIES HAVE SCATTERED OUT AND THE ATMOSPHERE IS DESTABILIZING ...WITH LIFTED INDICES NOW LOWER THAN MINUS 4 DEG C ACROSS NRN IN INTO THE BEH AREA. THE UPPER LEVEL LOW WAS NOW OVER WI...AND MOVING EAST. A SECOND LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP OVER ERN LAKE MI AND STRENGTHEN AS IT MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST LOWER MI THIS AFTERNOON. ILX 12Z SOUNDING WAS VERY DRY ABOVE 900 MB AND PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES ARE UNDER AN INCH. THUS THE LINE OF STORMS THAT DOES DEVELOP SHOULD BE NARROW. WITH THE LOWERING WET BULB ZERO VALUES AND INCREASING MID LEVEL WIND FIELDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE APPROACHING UPPER LOW...SOME LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS APPEAR POSSIBLE FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MI. WILL NEED MONITOR TRENDS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. .GRR...NONE. MJS
MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-091000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1216 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NOW ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...THIS AFTERNOON. THE COMBINATION OF SUNSHINE AND INCREASING MOISTURE WILL DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE...THIS AFTERNOON. A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN DURING THIS TIME. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM ALONG THIS FRONT. THE CONVECTION WILL BE ENHANCED BY THE PASSAGE OF AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM. THE PRIMARY THREATS ARE HAIL UP TO AN INCH IN DIAMETER...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH. THE MAIN TIME FRAME FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS BETWEEN 1 AND 6 PM. THE ESTIMATED STORM MOTION IS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS LOWER MICHIGAN LATER IN THE DAY ON TUESDAY AND THIS WILL AGAIN RESULT IN THE RISK OF ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WIND DAMAGE WOULD BE THE GREATEST THREAT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WE EXPECTED ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY HAVE BEEN DELAYED TO OVER THE WEEKEND. AT THAT POINT THE WARM AIR COMING NORTH FOR THE GULF WILL CONVERGE ON COOLER AIR MOVING SOUTH FROM CANADA. THIS BOUNDARY WILL BECOME STATIONARY NEAR LOWER MICHIGAN. THUS THE CHANCE FOR MORE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS YET AGAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR THE LATEST FORECAST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. YOU CAN ALSO OBTAIN THE LATEST FORECAST ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GRR/ (ALL LOWER CASE) MJS
MIZ038>040-044>046-051-052-056>059-064>067-071>074-082300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
126 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003
THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
FOR PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF LOWER MICHIGAN EFFECTIVE
UNTIL 700 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN
LAKE AND NEWAYGO
IN CENTRAL MICHIGAN
OSCEOLA...CLARE...ISABELLA...MECOSTA...MONTCALM AND GRATIOT
IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN
KENT...ALLEGAN...BARRY...KALAMAZOO...VAN BUREN AND OTTAWA
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN
IONIA...CLINTON...INGHAM...EATON...JACKSON AND CALHOUN
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58
MPH AND/OR HAIL THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER OR GREATER. IF
YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE
LOCAL NEWS OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
MJSThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Reports of one to as large as one and three quarters inch diameter hail were received from Allegan.
One inch diameter hail was reported in Dorr and three quarters inch hail fell in Wayland.
Three quarters to one inch diameter hail was reported in Kentwood. The same storm produced a report of one and one quarters inch hail in Cascade and three quarters inch hail in Ada as it moved east across southern Kent county.
A report of three quarters inch hail was received from Barryton.
Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported five miles northwest of Ionia. An isolated report from the same location indicated that a lone tree had been blown down.
A report of one inch diameter hail was received from Clare.
A severe thunderstorm produced three quarters inch diameter hail in Perrinton.
A severe thunderstorm wind gust blew a tree down and also blew some siding and shingles off of a home five miles northeast of Leslie.
Several large tree limbs were blown down three miles east of Hubbardston.
A tree was blown down onto a house in Kalamazoo.
Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported three miles south of Baldwin.
A very brief touchdown of a tornado was received from Rose Lake. The touchdown only lasted for a few seconds and no damage was observed.
Two trees were blown down by a severe thunderstorm wind gust in Delton.
Three quarters inch hail was reported in Bellevue and also two miles east of Grand Ledge.
A report of three quarters inch hail was received two miles east southeast of Tustin.
A very brief tornado touchdown was reported in Mulliken, where a wooden swingset was displaced ten feet, the tops of two large pine trees were snapped off, and several five to six inch diameter limbs were blown down. The tornado was classified as a F0.
A severe thunderstorm wind gust blew several trees down, removed some shingles from homes, and blew a few bricks across a street five miles east of Leslie.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Michigan in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Michigan, 2003Warnings in Michigan, June 2003
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: 5365293, 5365294, 5365295, 5364557, 5364640, 5364641, 5364642, 5364643, 5364644, 5364645, 5364646, 5364647, 5364648, 5364649, 5364650, 5364651, 5364652.