Thunderstorm Wind — Schoolcraft, Michigan

2006-07-16 · near Seney, Schoolcraft, Michigan

Event narrative

Several trees down along Highway M-77 and adjoining side roads.

Wider weather episode

An upper disturbance interacting with a very warm airmass and frontal boundary over southern Lake Superior helped set the stage for severe thunderstorms across portions of northern Upper Michigan during the late evening of the 15th into the morning hours of the 16th. The hardest hit area was over the north half of Houghton County where numerous thunderstorms caused damaging winds, large hail and flash flooding from torrential downpours. Keweenaw, Alger, Luce and northern Schoolcraft counties also observed damaging winds and/or large hail from the storms.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5520239. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.