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UNION CITY, MI — The Union Lake community was devastated by a tornado on March 6. Downtown Union City, about 40 miles southeast of Kalamazoo, also saw extensive damage. The National Weather Service gave the tornado an EF3 rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale with wind speeds of 150 mph.
Forecasters say severe storms remain a threat for several states in the coming days, while the NWS has issued tornado alerts.
A storm with a reported tornado hit Three Rivers on Friday, March 6 and tore through businesses, power lines and vehicles on W. Broadway Street.
A large tornado was spotted on the ground in Wheatfield, Indiana, as severe weather swept through the area.
The unusual Michigan tornado tore along the shore of Union Lake.
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Live updates: Deadly tornadoes barrel through Michigan, Oklahoma
Powerful thunderstorms bringing tornadoes, giant hail and damaging winds are erupting across parts of the Plains and Midwest. We’re tracking the latest developments and impacts as they happen.
The storm looked like something out of a weather textbook, and it produced both a large tornado and record hail in Illinois.
Tornadoes that swept through Michigan and Oklahoma on Friday killed at least six people and injured several others, authorities in both states said.
Tornadoes have killed at least two people in northwest Indiana and leveled buildings in Kankakee, Illinois KANKAKEE, Ill. — Major storms whipped up tornadoes that killed at least two people in northwest Indiana and leveled buildings in Kankakee,