The National Weather Service reports that an EF-1 tornado on Sunday, March 12, was the earliest so far north in southeastern Michigan since records began in 1950. The tornado southeast of Coleman in Midland County was only the 10th tornado to occur before April 1 in the 17 counties covered by the NWS Detroit office. It was the first to occur north of highway I-69 and is tied with the March 12, 1976 Lenawee County tornado as the earliest in the region. The tornado had a track length of 5.1 miles and a maximum width of 125 yards. The storm report:
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...Image (click to enlarge): Tornado damage near Coleman, Michigan, on March 12, 2012, from NWS
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0643 PM TORNADO 3 SSE COLEMAN 43.71N 84.57W
03/12/2012 EF1 MIDLAND MI EMERGENCY MNGR
EF1 TORNADO WITH WINDS ESTIMATED TO 90 MPH STARTED NEAR
WEINERT AND LEWIS ROADS WHERE A GARAGE WAS DESTOYED. THE
TORNADO MOVED NORTHEST DAMAGING 3 MORE POLE BARNS AND
UPROOTING TREES...ESPECIALLY AROUND ALAMANDO AND MANDO
ROADS AND NEAR THE END OF THE TORNADO PATH AT M-18 AND
SHAFFER ROAD. THE TORNADO PATH WAS 5.1 MILES WITH A
MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 125 YARDS. THE TORNADO ENDED AT 648 PM
EDT.
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Well, sounds like some more tornadoes across southeast Michigan yesterday, aided by unfathomably warm and humid weather for mid-March. Temperatures climbed to 75 to 80, with dewpoints in the low to mid 60s, creating extreme instability that allowed a few tornadic supercells to develop despite minimal dynamics and atmospheric windshear. You never know what's going to happen with this new globally warmed atmosphere overhead.
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