High Wind in Lake, Michigan

Wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph caused numerous power outages in Lake county.

A very strong low pressure system continued to intensify as it moved northeast across the Great Lakes region November 17th and 18th. The system brought a round of severe thunderstorms during the afternoon hours of Sunday the 17th, followed by very strong winds in the 60 to 80 mph range Sunday evening and Sunday night. Some of the strongest winds occurred between 8 pm and midnight on the 17th. South Haven had a peak wind gust of 77 mph and a 63 mph gust was recorded at Grand Rapids. This caused hundreds of thousands of power outages across lower Michigan as numerous trees, limbs and power lines were blown down. In some of the more rural areas, power was not restored for four to five days after the storm.