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High Wind in Kalamazoo, Michigan

High Wind February 24, 2019 – February 25, 2019 · Kalamazoo, Michigan

60 mph

Estimated gust (52 kt)

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

Wind gusts up to around 60 mph downed tree limbs and power lines and resulted in widespread power outages.

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 807829. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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