1 hail, 1 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 Mar 31, 3:50 PM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 350 PM EST FRI MAR 31 2006 THE ATMOSPHERE HAS BECOME UNSTABLE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN WHERE SURFACE BASED CAPE VALUES ARE NOW AROUND 500 J/KG. WIND FIELDS ARE STRONG WITH 0 TO 6 KM SHEAR VECTORS AROUND 50 KNOTS. ALSO STEEPER MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES OF 7.5 DEG C/KM HAVE MOVED IN FROM CENTRAL IL AND EASTERN WI. HELICITY IN THE SFC TO 1 KM LAYER ARE GENERALLY NEAR 200 M2/S2 ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL LOWER MI. SO INGREDIENTS ARE THERE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED FROM GRAND RAPIDS TO KALAMAZOO AS OF 330 PM. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEAST. THE BEST INSTABILITY IS EXPECTED TO SHIFT INTO THE JACKSON TO LANSING AREA BY 600 PM. THUS THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS PREDICTED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL LOWER MI. NOTICED SOME WIND GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH ACROSS NRN IL AND NW INDIANA. THIS COUPLED WITH THE EASTWARD MOVEMENT OF THE SYSTEM SUPPORTS AT LEAST ADVISORY CONDITIONS. WENT WITH GALES IN THE NEARSHORE. I DID NOTICE A 40KT WIND REPORT OVER THE OPEN LAKE EARLY DESPITE THE STABLE CONDITIONS. OTHERWISE NOT MUCH CHANGE TO THE REST OF THE FORECAST. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FOR SATURDAY. THE NEXT STORM ARRIVES FOR LATER SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT...WARRANTING THE HIGH POPS THAT WE HAVE FORECASTED. BASED ON THE TRACK OF THE STORM....HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE WEATHER ARE POSSIBLE. && .GRR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...GALE WARNING THIS EVENING FROM ST JOSEPH TO MANISTEE. WIND ADVISORY FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MI THIS EVENING. TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN THIS EVENING. && MJS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 330 PM EST FRI MAR 31 2006 MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-011115- MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON- MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON- INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 330 PM EST FRI MAR 31 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM SOUTH HAVEN TO MUSKEGON TO MOUNT PLEASANT. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS ARE HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH. A FEW SUPERCELLS ARE POSSIBLE AND THAT COULD LEAD TO AN ISOLATED TORNADO. BRIEFLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL ACCOMPANY ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP. THE MAIN STORM MOTION WILL BE EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. INCREASING SUNSHINE HAS LEAD TO AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE REGION. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE MOST UNSTABLE FROM BATTLE CREEK OVER TO JACKSON AND LANSING. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL PUSH IN FROM THE WEST THIS EVENING. THIS WILL TRIGGER SOME THUNDERSTORMS. AROUND SUNSET THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL DIMINISH STEADILY. WIND GUSTS MAY APPROACH 50 MPH LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY TONIGHT AS THE COLD AIR BEGINS TO POUR IN FROM ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A SECOND STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. THEN FOR MONDAY NIGHT...THE RAIN COULD CHANGE TO SNOW BEFORE ENDING AFTER MIDNIGHT. AT THIS POINT ANY ACCUMULATIONS WOULD BE ON THE LIGHT SIDE. YET A THIRD STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL COULD OCCUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON...AND THEN AGAIN ON MONDAY AND THURSDAY. LMZ844>849-011115- ST JOSEPH TO SOUTH HAVEN-SOUTH HAVEN TO HOLLAND- HOLLAND TO GRAND HAVEN-GRAND HAVEN TO WHITEHALL- WHITEHALL TO PENTWATER-PENTWATER TO MANISTEE- 330 PM EST FRI MAR 31 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SOUTHWEST GALES TO 35 KNOTS THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY TONIGHT WILL BUILD WAVES TO 3 TO 6 FEET RESULTING IN HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE UNTIL MID EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ANOTHER MAJOR STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES REGION LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. THIS STORM AND YET ANOTHER ON THURSDAY WILL ALSO BRING THE THREAT OF HIGH WINDS AND WAVES. WDM MJS
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
408 PM EST FRI MAR 31 2006
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0401 PM HAIL BATTLE CREEK 42.30N 85.23W
03/31/2006 E0.50 INCH CALHOUN MI TRAINED SPOTTER
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MKALEMBKThe Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:22 UTC.
1 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Trained spotters and an emergency manager reported one inch diameter hail from east of Battle Creek to near Marshall.
The tornado began near Napoleon Road just north of Center Lake and moved northeast. Two small barns collapsed and a patio addition was blown away near the intersection of Page and Noon roads. Minor roof damage occurred at a house on Michigan avenue and a dozen large spruce trees were uprooted. The total damage path was 7 miles long and 200 feet wide and this F1 tornado was on the ground for approximately ten minutes. No injuries or fatalities occurred.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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