Monster Tornado Slams Portage, Michigan With Large Debris Falling

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A large and destructive tornado developed just before 6 p.m. ET in Southern Kalamazoo County within Texas Township and tracked east/northeast along Center Street into Portage, Michigan. The tornado caused structural damage to a FedEx building and other homes and businesses within the path as it tracked just south of the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek International Airport Tuesday evening. The primary video view of the tornado is looking south from Westnedge Avenue south of the Crossroads Mall and Target store in Portage, Michigan as the tornado tracked east.
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00:00-00:34: Tornado reorganizes and develops at US 131 and Center Street in Portage, Michigan.
00:35-02:59: Large and destructive tornado tracks east across Westnedge Avenue, view south, within a mile or less, near the Crossroads Mall and Portage Target. Damage was occurring at this point and visible debris airborne.
03:00-03:57: Tornadic supercell and tornado/mesocyclone continue northeast, view east from the Climax exit ramp on I-94 eastbound. Debris raining down from the sky.
03:58-04:27: Fire and State Police vehicles pass en route to damage, followed by traffic snarls and slowdowns as people stream south to investigate damage in Portage, Michigan.
SID: Blake Naftel
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@tayamackenzie8793 24 дня назад

I live in Kalamazoo. Portage & the area of Kalamazoo closest to Portage were hit by 2 back-to-back tornadoes today. Absolute insanity. So glad there weren’t any fatalities.

@Piertides 24 дня назад

Happy that your safe and that even though there’s been 2 tornadoes there’s no fatalities as of this time. Is the Stryker Corporation still in Kalamazoo? They are one of the largest medical product companies in the US. I hope if so they were spared damage.

@kristinebailey6554 24 дня назад

@@Piertides Yes, Stryker is still there.

@RyanPringnitz 24 дня назад

There is damage around the Stryker campus

@dmgrider5479 24 дня назад

Thank you... my stepmother lives in portage- I'm in missouri - haven't heard from her yet

@archiethedadgamer7580 24 дня назад

Kalamazoo is my hometown, born and raised there. I live in Tennessee now but seeing this is just heartbreaking 😢

@cntrygrlTawanna 24 дня назад

I will never forget the green/gray sky. The one I lived through has been 29 years ago, but you never forget that sky.

@dennisb-trains23 24 дня назад

No you sure dont..

@jase4270 24 дня назад

Unreal looking sky definitely haunting.

@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews 24 дня назад

Wait you lived through the Jarrell tornado

@davecarpenter4917 24 дня назад

Same with a derecho we experienced many years ago, odd green highlights behind the first layers of clouds coming thru

@ian2372 24 дня назад

I've lived through 7 now. Cheers from Texas.

@christineblaszczyk1602 24 дня назад

Have family in Portage and they are OK. My daughter stated there is a lot of damage in the area. No deaths have been reported.

@Helmuesi911 22 дня назад

I’ve lived in Metro Detroit my whole life and have never seen a tornado. So unfair!

@ker_n7169 19 дней назад

@@Helmuesi911 no you dont want to see one they are dangerous

@Dana_at_LAX 18 дней назад

@@ker_n7169 they are beautiful but not when in populated areas.

@Dana_at_LAX 18 дней назад

Thank the lord there are no deaths.

@Mars0984 24 дня назад

Welcome to Michigan. I live up the road from where this hit. I’ll be busy helping those who have storm damage.

@user-jc8rz2jj9r 23 дня назад

Michigan isn’t the most tornado state, not even close. Lived here 66 years and have only seen one.

@zhenren9703 23 дня назад

Congratulations

@AshiyaWhitley-ShawVeganAthlete 23 дня назад

I don’t miss waking up to tornado sirens. I recall several tornadoes when I lived in MI. The first big one was when I was 4. May 18th, 1980 in Kalamazoo. I remember my parents taking me to the basement and bringing our dogs in. The city got demolished. We were in tornado alley. It blows my mind when people say they’ve lived there for decades, and never experienced tornadoes. We practically have tornado season. 😅

@Strob_GD 21 день назад

@@user-jc8rz2jj9r As a Michigander, we know this, but believe it or not, southern Michigan is part of the northern most tip of tornado allie and also certain areas get more, from Flint to Kalamazoo all the way down to Coldwater, hell i used to live in Lansing "Moved away" and we still got 2 to 3 tornado warnings a year

@michael.starbuck1998 24 дня назад

As someone that lived in Portage for 8 years before moving to Bangor area, it definitely breaks my heart to see something like this hit that town. My condolences to everyone affected by this storm.

@BlakeNaftel 24 дня назад

This tornado initially developed south of S Avenue south of Texas Corners, Michigan [north of Schoolcraft] in Southern Kalamazoo County about a mile from my home. That initial video will be posted later. It was very surreal, after experiencing and observing hundreds of tornadoes over the last several decades, to have this come so close to home in the very hometown that cemented my interest in meteorology and tornadoes following the 1980 event. Unfortunately there were some businesses and residences directly impacted in Portage. Not a pleasant experience nor one that others watching this can fully grasp from my meteorological "excitement" and concern as the event unfolded.

@dlofton7 23 дня назад

I lived in Portage for six years before moving to Ann Arbor. I have a really good friend who lives there. I’m just devastated that the tornadoes hit Southwest Michigan! 😢😭

@BlakeNaftel 23 дня назад

@@dlofton7 Fortunately, to my knowledge of this writing, there were thankfully no serious injuries or fatalities. It was very discomforting to view a significant tornado rip through my hometown area, certainly along a very familiar road/region.

@synthclassic6304 24 дня назад

I always hear the weatherman say, "It's raining debris many miles away," and this video actually shows what that is like!

@alabamajenny8751 24 дня назад

You wouldn’t catch me if I had accidentally drove thru that area and come upon that monster tornado. U turn in opposite direction and pedal to the FLOOR! Terrifying! Hope everyone made it out safely.

@zacharysherry2910 24 дня назад

Driving too fast is the most dangerous part of these chases.

@brad3628 24 дня назад

driven

@ansonwill1999 24 дня назад

Now where's your sense of adventure

@Krobear 24 дня назад

then gripes about gawker slowdown when he is one of them

@ElijahsInventions 24 дня назад

As a citizen of portage, Michigan this storm was insane. It sounded like a train when it hit my house.

@jennajolynn4800 24 дня назад

My sister lives in portage and she told me it was like a half mile away from her house and she could hear and feel the roof shaking

@selenais-not-real 24 дня назад

Jackson over here! Heard southwest Michigan got hit with over five tornadoes today. Saw one of em was a multivortex! Stay safe! 🌪️

@_STARRY_- 24 дня назад

I just barely miss it ( where I live ) but I have and underground pool and it’s pretty big and if it rained for like 15 more minutes are pool would’ve flooded ooh was it scary and my family had plans to go to the crossroads mall so lucky we decided to stay home oh god I’ll never forget the buzzing my phone made😭😭

@Facebook-sb3eo 24 дня назад

Five tornadoe's lord Jesus!!!!

@phoenixarizona8441 24 дня назад

Where at in Michigan we are from battle Creek lived in Niles Michigan for a while as well

@danielmorse4213 24 дня назад

Awesome

@elilove8456 23 дня назад

@@phoenixarizona8441Portage and Kalamazoo area Cass county, Vanburen, Barrien counties, Dowagiac or however you spell it.

@KalamazooKandy 24 дня назад

Thank you for chasing and posting this video.

@ShellymanStudios 24 дня назад

This tornado season has been hell.

@deborahmcnaughton4394 24 дня назад

It's just starting for the year too

@reidellis1988 24 дня назад

It's barely starting.

@syds8752 24 дня назад

Man…

@philliphall5198 24 дня назад

Worst thing is it’s just started 😢

@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews 24 дня назад

Off to a bad start

@wgsmokeNstripes 24 дня назад

Thanks for sharing. Have several family members that were in the path along Centre.

@PurpleDreki 24 дня назад

Classic nasty green sky tornado. Wow!

@maegpye 23 дня назад

I was in Kalamazoo during the 1980 tornado. I was working in the old State Hospital (children's unit) and sheltered with the patients in a small closet. So I didn't experience much of what was happening but the aftermath was sobering. It took almost an hour to find my way home just a mile away and the tornado had missed my house by blocks. I remember the way the still standing trees looked, denuded if their leaves and smaller branches. And how the utility wires had a lot of their insulation hanging in shreds. My heart goes out to this community after this event. I suspect it will be especially traumatic for those who have lived through both of these storms.

@WeepingWillow422 24 дня назад

I don't live in Michigan but it struck me as unusual to have multiple large tornadoes and a tornado emergency all at one time in Michigan. That's something I'd figure for somewhere like Oklahoma or Mississippi.

@pyroclastic8924 24 дня назад

i live in michigan and this is weird... we definitely get tornadoes especially out west where that is, but usually our tornado season comes around june

@TCK-9 24 дня назад

The same system hit northeast Oklahoma really bad around 9pm. the night before.

@Soturi92 24 дня назад

It really wasn’t that bad, but Portage got hit, I think a few other smaller towns around us but I live in Galesburg and didn’t see any touchdowns. Just lots of hail and a flash flood as they went by. Sorta windy. It’s just been so many years since folks here have had a legit tornado lol. I grew up in Alabama so I was the last one to get to shelter in the house lol. just sat down on the recliner in my basement and started watching youtube videos 😂

@meatpopsicle1567 24 дня назад

I was living north of Grand Rapids when a bunch of tornados went through Alpine Township and wiped out a bunch of homes and businesses on Palm Sunday in 1965. I remember the whole family sheltering in our basement, with my dad keeping an eye out the little window at the top of the south facing side of the house's foundation wall. Afterward, we drove down to Alpine Church Road and also 6 Mile Road where most of the houses had been destroyed and saw what was left of them, which wasn't much. One house on Alpine Church Road had nothing but an intact toilet remaining in what was once the bathroom. Everything else was gone. The original West Central Storage apple warehouse on 6 Mile at M37 got wiped out, too, along with some businesses across the street on M37, if I remember correctly. It seems to me tornado watches and warnings were pretty common in western Michigan during the mid to late 1960s, because we seemed to be huddling in the basement a lot every spring.

@frankbrennan7040 24 дня назад

Seeding

@user-fc9wy6zj8v 24 дня назад

How did you know so quickly it was a tornado??? Wow, amazing sir!! Thank you for being a spotter!! And keeping us safe!,

@fullahannah 24 дня назад

Praying for portage! These storms just barely missed me .. there are reports of 2 major tornadoes going through our area tonight

@tyclairep3744 24 дня назад

I was called in while off duty (EMS) to come in for this. It was crazy

@TristanEllis-vn1bd 24 дня назад

Praying for everyone in portage right now. I’m in Allegan and I’m really worried about the situation there. I remember this storm. 😢

@kgrimes842 24 дня назад

It never ceases to amaze me how there's a tornado and people are just driving around but tonight we had sirens going off like crazy and the storming along with it and people weren't only driving around but some were standing outside to watch! Now I get it but I'm to chicken to take that chance. I just keep thinking of Moore and joplin

@merriemisfit8406 24 дня назад

In the days before we had the warning siren systems, if the weather was feeling "iffy", moms would turn on the radio and listen for a weather alert. If it affected our area, you'd see all the moms standing out on their porches or driveways scanning the sky. We kids, wanting to be helpful, would go out too and watch the sky. Years later in college, I had a roommate who was from Beirut, Lebanon, and she said people there did the same thing when the air raid sirens turned on. It must be some kind of human nature thing, an instinct to see what might be coming after you. There's also the feeling that OTHER people get tornadoed, not you yourself. It never happened to you before, so ...

@margaretakaranicola4907 24 дня назад

Keeping portage in my thoughts and prayers!!

@billrobbins5874 24 дня назад

Terrifying to watch.

@pamelaporting8604 23 дня назад

As living in a trailer park shaver road watching this go by and over us and heading right there in portage at center Street in South westnedge area. Very scary I'm just thankful that it had missed us here in our trailer park and my heart goes out to the two trailer parks that did get hit and they have lost their homes. May God be with you all and help take care of you all during this time of times and trials and getting this mess cleaned up.

@shay6176 24 дня назад

I used to live in Portage about eight years ago, this is scary!

@rogerpackham15 24 дня назад

Prayers for everyone in these storms paths. It was intense when it came through Missouri.

@robinjacobson9402 24 дня назад

😮😮😮😮😮WHY!!!! Do I see!!!!Alot😮😮! Of cars at the store ,,on the roads😮😮😮😮😮Why!!!! CRAZY P E O P L E !!!!!!😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

@ShlisaShell 23 дня назад

Wow, the debris is falling and going back up and down. I am so glad the tornadoes broke up before reaching us in Battle Creek.

@thebirdperch_MI 24 дня назад

Thanks for the video! I am about 8 miles north of where this tornado was today. At my house, it was just heavy rain. Strange to think there was a tornado ripping through Portage while we were sitting in the garage watching it rain. I did go take a look at some of the damage. I have never seen that kind of tornado damage up close! It's interesting to actually see the tornado in this video!

@sarahconnor4757 24 дня назад

Thank you for warning people! You are saving lives.

@danielpeppa-pigpowers9386 23 дня назад

I live in Vicksburg. We were not hit, but I do have family that lives in the area and my place of work is in Portage as well. Thankfully everyone I know is okay. It's just so wild watching one of these tornado videos and knowing exactly where this person is at all times🤯 Thank goodness there have been ZERO recorded fatalities!

@lynnadames9526 24 дня назад

My daughter and her family live there and my son in law works in an office by the mall. I live all the way in San Diego and I was so frightened when she let me know what was happening!!! He was uninjured but trapped inside his building for a while. He made it home though!!! Thank God the tornado didn't hit their house with all my precious family members in it. 🙏🙏 I pray that there were no fatalities in this tiny little town.

@lisat735 23 дня назад

Glad everyone was safe! No fatalies at all thank the Lord...there has been people with injuries but not major..which is another blessing. Again blessings everyone is ok...have a great day!

@Steffi8575 24 дня назад

Wow! this is my hometown. I was just there a week ago. Family was safe so that is good.

@Alxium 23 дня назад

I just finished college at WMU a few miles north of there just over a week ago. Crazy stuff! There is an uncanny resemblance to the storm that happened back in February, that was also tornado warned and followed this exact path.

@aaronbell5994 24 дня назад

This thing shredded my trailer lol. Gah! 😄Thanks for the vid. Also that was an amazing shot at 3:01!

@robwilliams287 24 дня назад

that hit at quitting time for a lot of people a lot of them were just trying to get home.

@lloydbellis7360 24 дня назад

Wow, you was close. Thank you for what you do, and be safe 👍👍👍

@damondriver6363 23 дня назад

Wow. After the dec 10th 2021 tornado absolutely decimated 65% of my entire hometown, missed my house by half a mile, and missed my grandmothers by even less than that. I will never forget the look in the sky through the lightening and the way the atmosphere felt. Seeing the sky in this video made me nauseous, its legitimately sickening to me. Awesome video! Here in western KY we are set for some really rough weather here within the next few hours. Not ready for it, at all. Storm anxiety matched with living in a double wide with absolutely nowhere to go to seek shelter other than a radar and hitting the road, just exacerbates it.

@dannyc6166 24 дня назад

Big tornado!!!! Great catch!!!

@janicemichalek2731 24 дня назад

Terrible !!!!!! Thanks for the Update ... I'm in Lenawee county.. Michigan

@joshuam0289 23 дня назад

Missed my hotel in portage by a mile or so. What crazy eventful day yesterday! So far everyone was blessed and spared their lives 🙌

@joes.6683 24 дня назад

Dude burns through red lights💁🏻

@Krobear 24 дня назад

then gripes about "gawker" slowdown

@curtisneal3409 23 дня назад

While also using a camera while driving.

@overcomer91 23 дня назад

Yep, I noticed the Red lights too.😮

@stuartaminion511 23 дня назад

@@curtisneal3409 the passenger is filming. notice the wiper is on the right side Passenger side) so driver is not filming.

@stuartaminion511 23 дня назад

i noticed that but if you look he could have been turning left??? he came up to the light and it look like just before the frame went to a different view he was going into the left turn lane (which could have been green)??? or could have a liecence to go through red lights (got permission from state being a storm chaser to do so with red lights flasning?)

@jankrygier1607 24 дня назад

Outstanding video! Thanks for staying calm.

@StormChasingVideo 24 дня назад

You bet!, let the weather speak for itself.

@Krobear 24 дня назад

@@StormChasingVideo yet you gripe about gawker slowdown when you are one of them

@Olliethelabradane 24 дня назад

I was out storm chasing way away but I thought it looked like a monster storm! I got some pretty awesome pictures of the storm in the distance. I hope everyone is ok

@hurricaneheather1420 24 дня назад

Great footage 😊. Prayers are with them folks

@chuckgo.jr.4813 24 дня назад

Nice job. May I recommend Rain X for the windows? It allows me to use the delay setting on my windshield wipers.

@worldsgreatestdude1784 24 дня назад

A tornado outbreak in Michigan is something that I don’t think happens very often so who knows how prepared people were. Hopefully people were prepared & hopefully everyone is ok

@EASandSevereWeatherAddict 23 дня назад

Tornadoes do occur in Michigan but they usually do not exceed an EF-2 on the scale of damage with tornadoes greater than EF-3 being very uncommon and rare. A warmer winter like last winter may have led to this event due to more moisture in the air along with warmer temperatures which led to higher dew points and increased odds of severe weather which included tornadoes. I live in Southeast Michigan and our Peak season is between May and July. That means that we are just at the beginning of our tornado season and there could be more to come as we get closer to summer.

@danielmorse4213 24 дня назад

Nice little rainbow. Great job. So bas I am going to see if my house is still standing. Its not far from the trailerpark that got hit

@kirbygreen3309 24 дня назад

Ohhhhhhh my ! That is really a huge tornado.

@madelyn5376 24 дня назад

Stay safe while helping others💖

@AshiyaWhitley-ShawVeganAthlete 23 дня назад

I was on the phone with family in Portage when they got the alert for the second one. I called her kids to tell them to go back to the basement(I’m in GA.). She had just left Walmart, after they took cover for the first one. She had to go back to Walmart, because she couldn’t make it home safely before the other one hit. Back to back! Absolutely insane.

@melissaravencraft5573 24 дня назад

There was a rainbow under it. Hmmm.

@coletteg.4548 24 дня назад

Prayers

@dogprowilhelm7630 24 дня назад

Intense green sky reminds me of a twister I saw back east in the fall of the year. Lost 14 trees, power was out for 3days and the road had tree falls blocking any traffic for 2 days.

@chriswood9836 24 дня назад

Sure is a greenish color this time around

@Mgoblue1023 24 дня назад

The green color happens when there is a lot of hail in the core. This one absolutely had large hail, hence the greenish yellow color.

@marywmiller 24 дня назад

Terrible tornado season and it’s now come to Michigan. This tornado took out huge chunks of a new FedEx building in Portage. Praying everyone is safe.

@Ben-jz3mt 23 дня назад

It’s crazy to see storm chasing videos like these and you recognize every single road and building. That target is like 4-5 miles from me and I drive by it every day

@youronlybabygirl25 24 дня назад

I live about 25 minutes from Kalamazoo We got missed luckily but my brother and sister-in-law had to take cover at a business and It literally just passed over them We don't normally get tornadoes like this in Michigan that often We had a state emergency

@JEBell79 22 дня назад

Thank you for catching this footage! I live at Oakland and Centre and my neighborhood got hit pretty bad. Thank you also for the comment about the gawkers.

@aprilsmith3683 22 дня назад

The shades of green are both menacing and astoundingly magnificent... Good Lord Almighty... Back to back tornadoes... You are in our thoughts amd prayers... 🇿🇦

@JDRed117 24 дня назад

I was watching Ryan Hall's stream, the debris ball of this thing was *HUGE.*

@c1d2e 24 дня назад

1:40 blows through a red light staring at the tornado.

@ProcyonDei 23 дня назад

The scariest part is that it's so rain-wrapped that you wouldn't even know it's there if you don't know what to look for, and even then it's hard to tell, couldn't even see the debris until the storm chaser got closer...

@ImAustinTopham 23 дня назад

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Kalamazoo/Portage has had a storm this bad since 1980 - crazy stuff! Glad everyone's safe in my hometown.

@SteveC84 23 дня назад

I think you are correct

@martypodvoll3270 23 дня назад

At 0:35, he drives right past the Southland Mall shopping complex. I work at the Kohl's in that complex and was at work when the tornado hit. Very scary to see this footage, had the tornado hit a mile further north it would've directly hit us. Praying for all those affected.

@SimplySurrender 24 дня назад

At like two and a half minutes there's a rainbow in that tornado

@AllThingsConsidered333 23 дня назад

Love that you don’t shout and scream that there’s a tornado… can’t stand that! Just calm reporting and not super repetitive stating the obvious. Some of the storm chasers are hard to watch bcs of their shouting and repeating over & over again… if I watch them at all I will put them on mute

@jflee1 24 дня назад

We had alot of tornadoes today. I work by FedEx and we had to go in the basement 3 times after I got to work. Prying for those who lost alot.

@realKevinRichter 23 дня назад

I live here. Thanks for the coverage! 🙏

@catherineursu2857 24 дня назад

Michigan has been lucky up until now. I guess we can't complain. Prayers for all affected.

@daphnea5447 23 дня назад

Conveniently cuts out the part where he runs the red light 😂

@travishartman5662 24 дня назад

That was commercial roofing foam. Goes on flat roofs before the rubber roof membrane. It's very light and would easily get sucked way up into a storm.

@riahynanevamynd7698 24 дня назад

That gave me chills, how frigging scary!!!

@lizzyteall День назад

I live off of schuring road and I was inside the tornado,thanks to God and the trees saved us from any harm.

@mi2ube 24 дня назад

That 🌈 was beautiful!

@vermin1970 24 дня назад

RFD hit my place, don't think tornado was on the ground yet

@stuffposter9011 23 дня назад

That thing's rain wrapped too... Imagine a monster tornado plowing on through and you can't even see it. This is why warnings are so crucial.

@PippyPan 24 дня назад

Ooohhh...the green sky!😳

@StormChasingVideo 24 дня назад

Classic extreme sky colors.

@SteveC84 23 дня назад

I grew up just south of Portage. I've traveled westnedge dozens of times. This was devastating

@jefffernandez4623 24 дня назад

Was working the center street taphouse when it hit had trees snapping and our patio furniture flying around all of center street is messed up from Oakland to the taphouse

@dougiefresh195 23 дня назад

I’ve lived in Texas and seen many! Always been fascinated with tornadoes! I now live in Southwest Michigan. Looks like F2/3

@usamichigander.mike98 23 дня назад

Great video of the storm! Be safe out there. My condolences to everyone who was affected by this storm.

@milagroslee5740 24 дня назад

Oh my God please be safe. Praying for everyone's safety

@dramaqueen5795 23 дня назад

I can't believe there are so many people on the road's tornado are known to jump around

@Ubbnockshuss 23 дня назад

thank you for sharing!

@Auroralights321 24 дня назад

What is with all of these wedge tornadoes lately?

@katharinemarkotan5674 23 дня назад

Green sky means go! Run don't walk to shelter. I'm a life long Michigander and I can say these events are rare, especially the size of the tornado and the appearance on radar. Looked like something from TX/OK/Kansas/Neb/Iowa not Michigan!

@officialWWM 22 дня назад

Wow, that sure is some wild weather you get in that part of the world!

@randytracy1742 23 дня назад

Fantastic video of the tornado 🌪️ my sympathies are with the people in portage, Michigan!! 😮😮😮😮😮😅

@adrift1552 24 дня назад

the fact i was like 2 miles from this is insane

@AmySweezey 23 дня назад

Nice work, Blake!!

@JoselynPawlak 23 дня назад

I live in Ohio. Just had a tornado hit a couple miles away from my house yesterday. About 5 tornados that happened yesterday. Hoping everyone stays safe

@BeingButterfly 24 дня назад

I see a rainbow at 2:46

@zhenren9703 23 дня назад

That green sky. I was a sr in hs, waiting to be let out of our last class for the day before softball practice. Looked out the window, joked about practice getting rained out, then asked the teacher why the sky was green. His eyes got so big and he ran out the room. All students in our small school were hearded into a gym, then tbe cafeteria as the roof started to lift in the gym. Afterwards we walked outside to complete devastation. The hail decimated everything, the tornado was weak but messy. Green skies haunt me

@777indigobabe 24 дня назад

Oh my gosh. I lived there & worked at the restaurant infront of crossroads mall. Gezzz. I hope everyone is ok

@jasparewilson897 19 дней назад

This was scary. I was at Westnedge and Romence Rd when this hit Romence and Lovers Ln. (Half mile ahead of me) I thought, I might not make it out of this one. Thank God there were no casualties.

@Mikes5276 23 дня назад

We were a half mile east of 131 where this video started. Family rode out the storm in the car. I got locked in at Little Ceasers. We ended up in the north part of the rotation. Thankfully no injuries, but lots of local tree damage where we were.

@marcbyrnes293 24 дня назад

The green tint was definitely visible prior to the tornado

@andrewsmith3121 22 дня назад

I have watched this several times, and since I was in the area when this happened, I was curious what others saw. I didn't see any (or very, very little) rotation, even in watching this video. It seems like this is a classic case of just severe straight-line wind storm. How else can you tell the difference if you can't see any rotation? I understand different classifications and all of that, but I have seen several storms in my life, living in various parts of the country, from when I lived in AL, NC, KS, IL, NE and now MI, and sometimes it is easy to see the tornado funnel and rotation, and other times it isn't there. Straight-line storms certainly have the power to appear like tornados. In the end, it doesn't really matter when you have to deal with the damage the storm creates and leaves.

@777indigobabe 24 дня назад

Is this near Sprinkle rd in Kzoo/portage much