Hail in Kalamazoo County, Michigan

Hail April 26, 2011 · Kalamazoo County, Michigan

1.25 in

Hail diameter

$4.0M

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Trained spotters reported that large hail fell from a thunderstorm that tracked from just southwest of Oshtemo east northeast across northern Kalamazoo to Richland. The hail size reached 1.25 inches in diameter two miles west of Richland. The hail swath was up to one mile wide based on the correlation of spotter reports with WSR-88D radar products.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon and evening hours of April 26 as an upper level trough and cold front approached our region. Several low topped supercells developed and produced numerous reports of large hail up to around two inches in diameter. In addition a damage survey team from the NWS Grand Rapids office determined that damage caused near Burnips in Allegan County was due to an EF-0 tornado with top winds near 85 mph that damaged buildings at the Deboer Turkey Farm and trailers around the area. In Portage, nine people were injured by a lightning strike.

Began near Miller Corner (42.2300, -85.7310).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Allegan County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 287815. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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