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EF0 tornado in Shiawassee County, Michigan

Tornado April 14, 2026 · Shiawassee County, Michigan

EF0

Rating

1.7 mi

Path length

250 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 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 touched down near Newburg Rd just west of Lansing Rd before moving

east across Lansing Rd. EF-0 damage occurred along the path with downed pine

trees and large tree limbs. Some structural damage was seen with siding off

of a home, outbuilding roof panels blown off and collapsed barn doors near

Newburg Rd and Vernon Rd. Peak winds estimated at 80 mph. The tornado lifted just to the southeast of Newburg Rd and S Reed Rd where there were both downed hardwood and pine trees, along with large tree limbs.

The wider storm

A line of strong to severe thunderstorms swept across central and southern Lower Michigan from late in the evening of April 14 to early in the morning on April 15, 2026. These storms packed very strong winds, spawning 5 tornadoes across Southeast MI as well as numerous instances of straight-line wind damage.

Began near Vernon (42.9095, -84.0410).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Saginaw County EF1 Washtenaw County EF0 Saginaw County EF0 Wayne County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1328774. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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