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EF0 tornado in Macomb County, Michigan

Tornado June 18, 2025 · Macomb County, Michigan

EF0
Rating
2.4 mi
Path length
400 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado started north of Masonic and east of Utica Road and Garfield Road, in the vicinity of General Street. The tornado moved north crossing 14 Mile Road and affected about 15 to 20 homes, with shingles blown off their roofs. The most concentrated damage was in this neighborhood, with a lot of tree damage as well. The most

significant structural damage that was noted was 1 house losing a section of its roof. The tornado continued to move north crossing 15 Mile Road causing additional tree

damage before dissipating just south of the Metro Parkway. Estimated peak winds of 70 MPH with the tornado.

The wider storm

Multiple rounds of thunderstorms impacted portions of Southeast Michigan on June 18, 2025. The first round consisted of sub-severe pop-up thunderstorms during the morning hours. These produced pockets of heavy downpours but otherwise brought some relief to areas that had seen relatively dry conditions in recent days. Showers expanded in coverage across the southern part of the state by late morning to early afternoon as a disturbance aloft ushered in a more organized cluster of thunderstorms. These were also sub-severe, but the presence of environmental vorticity caused a weak tornado to quickly develop as several outflow boundaries collided near Fraser in Macomb County. These storms also produced torrential downpours. Nearly stationary storms dumped 3 to 5 inches of rain over a localized area in central Macomb County where flash flooding occurred early in the afternoon, closing roads and leading to several water rescues. A lull in activity occurred during the mid afternoon before a third round of thunderstorms arrived in the evening as a low pressure system approached from Indiana. This line of storms caused isolated occurrences of wind damage across southern parts of the state.

Began near Fraser (42.5341, -82.9476).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1254074. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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