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High Wind in Van Buren, Michigan

High Wind February 24, 2019 – February 25, 2019 · Van Buren, Michigan

60 mph
Estimated gust (52 kt)
$3.0M
Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

Downed tree limbs and power lines and widespread power outages occurred due to wind gusts of up to around 60 mph.

The wider storm

A high wind event occurred with wind gusts reaching the 55 to 65 mph range that resulted in the loss of power to around a million people on the 24th into the 25th. In Kent county alone over 280,000 people lost power. Over a hundred thousand people lost power across Kalamazoo county.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 807828. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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