Lake Michigan, 2017Waterspout in Lake Michigan, September 5, 2017
September 5, 2017 · NWS APX · 1 event in 1 county or zone
Showers produced a waterspout over Lake Michigan.
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
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- 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.
Showers produced a waterspout over Lake Michigan.
What forecasters said that day
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 Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 5, 9:11 AM EST, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 9:11 AM EST, 46 minutes before
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Local storm report, Sep 5, 9:07 AM EST, 50 minutes before
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</html>Waterspout, Sleeping Bear Point to Grand Traverse Light Mi
- When
- September 5, 9:57 AM EST to 10:15 AM EST
- Where
- Sleeping Bear Point to Grand Traverse Light Mi forecast zone, 5.97 mi NE of Leland
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 45.087, -85.703
A waterspout was sighted by the public off of Gills Pier.
- Waterspout
- A tornado over water. One that moves ashore is filed as a tornado from the coastline on.
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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 723306.