I live in Kalamazoo. Portage & the area of Kalamazoo closest to Portage were hit by 2 back-to-back tornadoes today. Absolute insanity. So glad there weren’t any fatalities.
Happy that your safe and that even though there’s been 2 tornadoes there’s no fatalities as of this time. Is the Stryker Corporation still in Kalamazoo? They are one of the largest medical product companies in the US. I hope if so they were spared damage.
I don’t miss waking up to tornado sirens. I recall several tornadoes when I lived in MI. The first big one was when I was 4. May 18th, 1980 in Kalamazoo. I remember my parents taking me to the basement and bringing our dogs in. The city got demolished. We were in tornado alley. It blows my mind when people say they’ve lived there for decades, and never experienced tornadoes. We practically have tornado season. 😅
@@user-jc8rz2jj9r As a Michigander, we know this, but believe it or not, southern Michigan is part of the northern most tip of tornado allie and also certain areas get more, from Flint to Kalamazoo all the way down to Coldwater, hell i used to live in Lansing "Moved away" and we still got 2 to 3 tornado warnings a year
As someone that lived in Portage for 8 years before moving to Bangor area, it definitely breaks my heart to see something like this hit that town. My condolences to everyone affected by this storm.
This tornado initially developed south of S Avenue south of Texas Corners, Michigan [north of Schoolcraft] in Southern Kalamazoo County about a mile from my home. That initial video will be posted later. It was very surreal, after experiencing and observing hundreds of tornadoes over the last several decades, to have this come so close to home in the very hometown that cemented my interest in meteorology and tornadoes following the 1980 event. Unfortunately there were some businesses and residences directly impacted in Portage. Not a pleasant experience nor one that others watching this can fully grasp from my meteorological "excitement" and concern as the event unfolded.
I lived in Portage for six years before moving to Ann Arbor. I have a really good friend who lives there. I’m just devastated that the tornadoes hit Southwest Michigan! 😢😭
@@dlofton7 Fortunately, to my knowledge of this writing, there were thankfully no serious injuries or fatalities. It was very discomforting to view a significant tornado rip through my hometown area, certainly along a very familiar road/region.
You wouldn’t catch me if I had accidentally drove thru that area and come upon that monster tornado. U turn in opposite direction and pedal to the FLOOR! Terrifying! Hope everyone made it out safely.
I just barely miss it ( where I live ) but I have and underground pool and it’s pretty big and if it rained for like 15 more minutes are pool would’ve flooded ooh was it scary and my family had plans to go to the crossroads mall so lucky we decided to stay home oh god I’ll never forget the buzzing my phone made😭😭
I was in Kalamazoo during the 1980 tornado. I was working in the old State Hospital (children's unit) and sheltered with the patients in a small closet. So I didn't experience much of what was happening but the aftermath was sobering. It took almost an hour to find my way home just a mile away and the tornado had missed my house by blocks. I remember the way the still standing trees looked, denuded if their leaves and smaller branches. And how the utility wires had a lot of their insulation hanging in shreds. My heart goes out to this community after this event. I suspect it will be especially traumatic for those who have lived through both of these storms.
I don't live in Michigan but it struck me as unusual to have multiple large tornadoes and a tornado emergency all at one time in Michigan. That's something I'd figure for somewhere like Oklahoma or Mississippi.
i live in michigan and this is weird... we definitely get tornadoes especially out west where that is, but usually our tornado season comes around june
It really wasn’t that bad, but Portage got hit, I think a few other smaller towns around us but I live in Galesburg and didn’t see any touchdowns. Just lots of hail and a flash flood as they went by. Sorta windy. It’s just been so many years since folks here have had a legit tornado lol. I grew up in Alabama so I was the last one to get to shelter in the house lol. just sat down on the recliner in my basement and started watching youtube videos 😂
I was living north of Grand Rapids when a bunch of tornados went through Alpine Township and wiped out a bunch of homes and businesses on Palm Sunday in 1965. I remember the whole family sheltering in our basement, with my dad keeping an eye out the little window at the top of the south facing side of the house's foundation wall. Afterward, we drove down to Alpine Church Road and also 6 Mile Road where most of the houses had been destroyed and saw what was left of them, which wasn't much. One house on Alpine Church Road had nothing but an intact toilet remaining in what was once the bathroom. Everything else was gone. The original West Central Storage apple warehouse on 6 Mile at M37 got wiped out, too, along with some businesses across the street on M37, if I remember correctly. It seems to me tornado watches and warnings were pretty common in western Michigan during the mid to late 1960s, because we seemed to be huddling in the basement a lot every spring.
i noticed that but if you look he could have been turning left??? he came up to the light and it look like just before the frame went to a different view he was going into the left turn lane (which could have been green)??? or could have a liecence to go through red lights (got permission from state being a storm chaser to do so with red lights flasning?)
As living in a trailer park shaver road watching this go by and over us and heading right there in portage at center Street in South westnedge area. Very scary I'm just thankful that it had missed us here in our trailer park and my heart goes out to the two trailer parks that did get hit and they have lost their homes. May God be with you all and help take care of you all during this time of times and trials and getting this mess cleaned up.
Thanks for the video! I am about 8 miles north of where this tornado was today. At my house, it was just heavy rain. Strange to think there was a tornado ripping through Portage while we were sitting in the garage watching it rain. I did go take a look at some of the damage. I have never seen that kind of tornado damage up close! It's interesting to actually see the tornado in this video!
I live in Vicksburg. We were not hit, but I do have family that lives in the area and my place of work is in Portage as well. Thankfully everyone I know is okay. It's just so wild watching one of these tornado videos and knowing exactly where this person is at all times🤯 Thank goodness there have been ZERO recorded fatalities!
It never ceases to amaze me how there's a tornado and people are just driving around but tonight we had sirens going off like crazy and the storming along with it and people weren't only driving around but some were standing outside to watch! Now I get it but I'm to chicken to take that chance. I just keep thinking of Moore and joplin
In the days before we had the warning siren systems, if the weather was feeling "iffy", moms would turn on the radio and listen for a weather alert. If it affected our area, you'd see all the moms standing out on their porches or driveways scanning the sky. We kids, wanting to be helpful, would go out too and watch the sky. Years later in college, I had a roommate who was from Beirut, Lebanon, and she said people there did the same thing when the air raid sirens turned on. It must be some kind of human nature thing, an instinct to see what might be coming after you. There's also the feeling that OTHER people get tornadoed, not you yourself. It never happened to you before, so ...
Wow. After the dec 10th 2021 tornado absolutely decimated 65% of my entire hometown, missed my house by half a mile, and missed my grandmothers by even less than that. I will never forget the look in the sky through the lightening and the way the atmosphere felt. Seeing the sky in this video made me nauseous, its legitimately sickening to me. Awesome video! Here in western KY we are set for some really rough weather here within the next few hours. Not ready for it, at all. Storm anxiety matched with living in a double wide with absolutely nowhere to go to seek shelter other than a radar and hitting the road, just exacerbates it.
My daughter and her family live there and my son in law works in an office by the mall. I live all the way in San Diego and I was so frightened when she let me know what was happening!!! He was uninjured but trapped inside his building for a while. He made it home though!!! Thank God the tornado didn't hit their house with all my precious family members in it. 🙏🙏 I pray that there were no fatalities in this tiny little town.
Glad everyone was safe! No fatalies at all thank the Lord...there has been people with injuries but not major..which is another blessing. Again blessings everyone is ok...have a great day!
I just finished college at WMU a few miles north of there just over a week ago. Crazy stuff! There is an uncanny resemblance to the storm that happened back in February, that was also tornado warned and followed this exact path.
I was out storm chasing way away but I thought it looked like a monster storm! I got some pretty awesome pictures of the storm in the distance. I hope everyone is ok
Thank you for catching this footage! I live at Oakland and Centre and my neighborhood got hit pretty bad. Thank you also for the comment about the gawkers.
A tornado outbreak in Michigan is something that I don’t think happens very often so who knows how prepared people were. Hopefully people were prepared & hopefully everyone is ok
Tornadoes do occur in Michigan but they usually do not exceed an EF-2 on the scale of damage with tornadoes greater than EF-3 being very uncommon and rare. A warmer winter like last winter may have led to this event due to more moisture in the air along with warmer temperatures which led to higher dew points and increased odds of severe weather which included tornadoes. I live in Southeast Michigan and our Peak season is between May and July. That means that we are just at the beginning of our tornado season and there could be more to come as we get closer to summer.
At 0:35, he drives right past the Southland Mall shopping complex. I work at the Kohl's in that complex and was at work when the tornado hit. Very scary to see this footage, had the tornado hit a mile further north it would've directly hit us. Praying for all those affected.
I live about 25 minutes from Kalamazoo We got missed luckily but my brother and sister-in-law had to take cover at a business and It literally just passed over them We don't normally get tornadoes like this in Michigan that often We had a state emergency
Intense green sky reminds me of a twister I saw back east in the fall of the year. Lost 14 trees, power was out for 3days and the road had tree falls blocking any traffic for 2 days.
I was on the phone with family in Portage when they got the alert for the second one. I called her kids to tell them to go back to the basement(I’m in GA.). She had just left Walmart, after they took cover for the first one. She had to go back to Walmart, because she couldn’t make it home safely before the other one hit. Back to back! Absolutely insane.
It’s crazy to see storm chasing videos like these and you recognize every single road and building. That target is like 4-5 miles from me and I drive by it every day
Love that you don’t shout and scream that there’s a tornado… can’t stand that! Just calm reporting and not super repetitive stating the obvious. Some of the storm chasers are hard to watch bcs of their shouting and repeating over & over again… if I watch them at all I will put them on mute
Was working the center street taphouse when it hit had trees snapping and our patio furniture flying around all of center street is messed up from Oakland to the taphouse
I live in Ohio. Just had a tornado hit a couple miles away from my house yesterday. About 5 tornados that happened yesterday. Hoping everyone stays safe
The scariest part is that it's so rain-wrapped that you wouldn't even know it's there if you don't know what to look for, and even then it's hard to tell, couldn't even see the debris until the storm chaser got closer...
The shades of green are both menacing and astoundingly magnificent... Good Lord Almighty... Back to back tornadoes... You are in our thoughts amd prayers... 🇿🇦
Full disclosure from the videographer. I slowly yielded through two red lights, looked both ways before proceeding as a significant tornado materialized less than a mile to the south of my location. There was no manic action to the maneuver, nor do I consider myself above the law in doing so considering the situation that was unfolding. I honked at the driver in the Target parking lot who was focused on the tornado as a cautionary "please don't drive into me" notice as I went to park and view as the tornado moved east. When a significant tornado is ongoing, certainly in a metropolitan area, the main focus is to get off a main road, in this instance Westnedge Ave, to view and send in a report to the National Weather Service. It all comes down to situational awareness in a very turbulent atmosphere. I'm sorry if you were offended by that illegal maneuver and/or the cut edit in this video, of which the full edit will be available in the near future.
@@Krobear All I was noting were the hundreds of vehicles streaming intentionally into the damaged area after the tornado, while I was navigating driving away.
It seems like the intentional red-light edit is raising some eyebrows. I did indeed yield and drive through two red lights, driving through at 20 mph as a significant tornado passed to my south and east. I needed to get off the main road, Westnedge Ave, to stop, view and submit a report to the National Weather Service.
Green sky means go! Run don't walk to shelter. I'm a life long Michigander and I can say these events are rare, especially the size of the tornado and the appearance on radar. Looked like something from TX/OK/Kansas/Neb/Iowa not Michigan!
I have watched this several times, and since I was in the area when this happened, I was curious what others saw. I didn't see any (or very, very little) rotation, even in watching this video. It seems like this is a classic case of just severe straight-line wind storm. How else can you tell the difference if you can't see any rotation? I understand different classifications and all of that, but I have seen several storms in my life, living in various parts of the country, from when I lived in AL, NC, KS, IL, NE and now MI, and sometimes it is easy to see the tornado funnel and rotation, and other times it isn't there. Straight-line storms certainly have the power to appear like tornados. In the end, it doesn't really matter when you have to deal with the damage the storm creates and leaves.
That green sky. I was a sr in hs, waiting to be let out of our last class for the day before softball practice. Looked out the window, joked about practice getting rained out, then asked the teacher why the sky was green. His eyes got so big and he ran out the room. All students in our small school were hearded into a gym, then tbe cafeteria as the roof started to lift in the gym. Afterwards we walked outside to complete devastation. The hail decimated everything, the tornado was weak but messy. Green skies haunt me
This was scary. I was at Westnedge and Romence Rd when this hit Romence and Lovers Ln. (Half mile ahead of me) I thought, I might not make it out of this one. Thank God there were no casualties.
I live in Kalamazoo. Portage & the area of Kalamazoo closest to Portage were hit by 2 back-to-back tornadoes today. Absolute insanity. So glad there weren’t any fatalities.
Happy that your safe and that even though there’s been 2 tornadoes there’s no fatalities as of this time. Is the Stryker Corporation still in Kalamazoo? They are one of the largest medical product companies in the US. I hope if so they were spared damage.
@@Piertides Yes, Stryker is still there.
There is damage around the Stryker campus
Thank you... my stepmother lives in portage- I'm in missouri - haven't heard from her yet
Kalamazoo is my hometown, born and raised there. I live in Tennessee now but seeing this is just heartbreaking 😢
I will never forget the green/gray sky. The one I lived through has been 29 years ago, but you never forget that sky.
No you sure dont..
Unreal looking sky definitely haunting.
Wait you lived through the Jarrell tornado
Same with a derecho we experienced many years ago, odd green highlights behind the first layers of clouds coming thru
I've lived through 7 now. Cheers from Texas.
Have family in Portage and they are OK. My daughter stated there is a lot of damage in the area. No deaths have been reported.
I’ve lived in Metro Detroit my whole life and have never seen a tornado.
So unfair!
@@Helmuesi911 no you dont want to see one they are dangerous
@@ker_n7169 they are beautiful but not when in populated areas.
Thank the lord there are no deaths.
Welcome to Michigan. I live up the road from where this hit. I’ll be busy helping those who have storm damage.
Michigan isn’t the most tornado state, not even close. Lived here 66 years and have only seen one.
Congratulations
I don’t miss waking up to tornado sirens. I recall several tornadoes when I lived in MI. The first big one was when I was 4. May 18th, 1980 in Kalamazoo. I remember my parents taking me to the basement and bringing our dogs in. The city got demolished. We were in tornado alley. It blows my mind when people say they’ve lived there for decades, and never experienced tornadoes. We practically have tornado season. 😅
@@user-jc8rz2jj9r As a Michigander, we know this, but believe it or not, southern Michigan is part of the northern most tip of tornado allie and also certain areas get more, from Flint to Kalamazoo all the way down to Coldwater, hell i used to live in Lansing "Moved away" and we still got 2 to 3 tornado warnings a year
As someone that lived in Portage for 8 years before moving to Bangor area, it definitely breaks my heart to see something like this hit that town. My condolences to everyone affected by this storm.
This tornado initially developed south of S Avenue south of Texas Corners, Michigan [north of Schoolcraft] in Southern Kalamazoo County about a mile from my home. That initial video will be posted later. It was very surreal, after experiencing and observing hundreds of tornadoes over the last several decades, to have this come so close to home in the very hometown that cemented my interest in meteorology and tornadoes following the 1980 event. Unfortunately there were some businesses and residences directly impacted in Portage. Not a pleasant experience nor one that others watching this can fully grasp from my meteorological "excitement" and concern as the event unfolded.
I lived in Portage for six years before moving to Ann Arbor. I have a really good friend who lives there. I’m just devastated that the tornadoes hit Southwest Michigan! 😢😭
@@dlofton7 Fortunately, to my knowledge of this writing, there were thankfully no serious injuries or fatalities. It was very discomforting to view a significant tornado rip through my hometown area, certainly along a very familiar road/region.
You wouldn’t catch me if I had accidentally drove thru that area and come upon that monster tornado. U turn in opposite direction and pedal to the FLOOR! Terrifying! Hope everyone made it out safely.
Driving too fast is the most dangerous part of these chases.
driven
Now where's your sense of adventure
then gripes about gawker slowdown when he is one of them
I always hear the weatherman say, "It's raining debris many miles away," and this video actually shows what that is like!
My sister lives in portage and she told me it was like a half mile away from her house and she could hear and feel the roof shaking
Jackson over here! Heard southwest Michigan got hit with over five tornadoes today. Saw one of em was a multivortex! Stay safe! 🌪️
I just barely miss it ( where I live ) but I have and underground pool and it’s pretty big and if it rained for like 15 more minutes are pool would’ve flooded ooh was it scary and my family had plans to go to the crossroads mall so lucky we decided to stay home oh god I’ll never forget the buzzing my phone made😭😭
Five tornadoe's lord Jesus!!!!
Where at in Michigan we are from battle Creek lived in Niles Michigan for a while as well
Awesome
@@phoenixarizona8441Portage and Kalamazoo area Cass county, Vanburen, Barrien counties, Dowagiac or however you spell it.
As a citizen of portage, Michigan this storm was insane. It sounded like a train when it hit my house.
Thank you for chasing and posting this video.
This tornado season has been hell.
It's just starting for the year too
It's barely starting.
Man…
Worst thing is it’s just started 😢
Off to a bad start
How did you know so quickly it was a tornado??? Wow, amazing sir!! Thank you for being a spotter!! And keeping us safe!,
Thanks for sharing. Have several family members that were in the path along Centre.
Praying for everyone in portage right now. I’m in Allegan and I’m really worried about the situation there. I remember this storm. 😢
I was in Kalamazoo during the 1980 tornado. I was working in the old State Hospital (children's unit) and sheltered with the patients in a small closet. So I didn't experience much of what was happening but the aftermath was sobering. It took almost an hour to find my way home just a mile away and the tornado had missed my house by blocks. I remember the way the still standing trees looked, denuded if their leaves and smaller branches. And how the utility wires had a lot of their insulation hanging in shreds.
My heart goes out to this community after this event. I suspect it will be especially traumatic for those who have lived through both of these storms.
Classic nasty green sky tornado. Wow!
I was called in while off duty (EMS) to come in for this. It was crazy
that hit at quitting time for a lot of people a lot of them were just trying to get home.
Keeping portage in my thoughts and prayers!!
Terrifying to watch.
Prayers for everyone in these storms paths. It was intense when it came through Missouri.
😮😮😮😮😮WHY!!!! Do I see!!!!Alot😮😮! Of cars at the store ,,on the roads😮😮😮😮😮Why!!!! CRAZY P E O P L E !!!!!!😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Praying for portage! These storms just barely missed me .. there are reports of 2 major tornadoes going through our area tonight
I don't live in Michigan but it struck me as unusual to have multiple large tornadoes and a tornado emergency all at one time in Michigan. That's something I'd figure for somewhere like Oklahoma or Mississippi.
i live in michigan and this is weird... we definitely get tornadoes especially out west where that is, but usually our tornado season comes around june
The same system hit northeast Oklahoma really bad around 9pm. the night before.
It really wasn’t that bad, but Portage got hit, I think a few other smaller towns around us but I live in Galesburg and didn’t see any touchdowns. Just lots of hail and a flash flood as they went by. Sorta windy. It’s just been so many years since folks here have had a legit tornado lol. I grew up in Alabama so I was the last one to get to shelter in the house lol. just sat down on the recliner in my basement and started watching youtube videos 😂
I was living north of Grand Rapids when a bunch of tornados went through Alpine Township and wiped out a bunch of homes and businesses on Palm Sunday in 1965. I remember the whole family sheltering in our basement, with my dad keeping an eye out the little window at the top of the south facing side of the house's foundation wall. Afterward, we drove down to Alpine Church Road and also 6 Mile Road where most of the houses had been destroyed and saw what was left of them, which wasn't much. One house on Alpine Church Road had nothing but an intact toilet remaining in what was once the bathroom. Everything else was gone.
The original West Central Storage apple warehouse on 6 Mile at M37 got wiped out, too, along with some businesses across the street on M37, if I remember correctly.
It seems to me tornado watches and warnings were pretty common in western Michigan during the mid to late 1960s, because we seemed to be huddling in the basement a lot every spring.
Seeding
I used to live in Portage about eight years ago, this is scary!
Dude burns through red lights💁🏻
then gripes about "gawker" slowdown
While also using a camera while driving.
Yep, I noticed the Red lights too.😮
@@curtisneal3409 the passenger is filming. notice the wiper is on the right side Passenger side) so driver is not filming.
i noticed that but if you look he could have been turning left??? he came up to the light and it look like just before the frame went to a different view he was going into the left turn lane (which could have been green)??? or could have a liecence to go through red lights (got permission from state being a storm chaser to do so with red lights flasning?)
Thank you for warning people! You are saving lives.
As living in a trailer park shaver road watching this go by and over us and heading right there in portage at center Street in South westnedge area. Very scary I'm just thankful that it had missed us here in our trailer park and my heart goes out to the two trailer parks that did get hit and they have lost their homes. May God be with you all and help take care of you all during this time of times and trials and getting this mess cleaned up.
Thanks for the video! I am about 8 miles north of where this tornado was today. At my house, it was just heavy rain. Strange to think there was a tornado ripping through Portage while we were sitting in the garage watching it rain. I did go take a look at some of the damage. I have never seen that kind of tornado damage up close! It's interesting to actually see the tornado in this video!
This thing shredded my trailer lol. Gah! 😄Thanks for the vid. Also that was an amazing shot at 3:01!
I live in Vicksburg. We were not hit, but I do have family that lives in the area and my place of work is in Portage as well. Thankfully everyone I know is okay. It's just so wild watching one of these tornado videos and knowing exactly where this person is at all times🤯
Thank goodness there have been ZERO recorded fatalities!
Big tornado!!!! Great catch!!!
It never ceases to amaze me how there's a tornado and people are just driving around but tonight we had sirens going off like crazy and the storming along with it and people weren't only driving around but some were standing outside to watch! Now I get it but I'm to chicken to take that chance. I just keep thinking of Moore and joplin
In the days before we had the warning siren systems, if the weather was feeling "iffy", moms would turn on the radio and listen for a weather alert. If it affected our area, you'd see all the moms standing out on their porches or driveways scanning the sky. We kids, wanting to be helpful, would go out too and watch the sky. Years later in college, I had a roommate who was from Beirut, Lebanon, and she said people there did the same thing when the air raid sirens turned on. It must be some kind of human nature thing, an instinct to see what might be coming after you.
There's also the feeling that OTHER people get tornadoed, not you yourself. It never happened to you before, so ...
Wow, the debris is falling and going back up and down. I am so glad the tornadoes broke up before reaching us in Battle Creek.
Wow, you was close.
Thank you for what you do, and be safe
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Prayers
Wow! this is my hometown. I was just there a week ago. Family was safe so that is good.
Wow. After the dec 10th 2021 tornado absolutely decimated 65% of my entire hometown, missed my house by half a mile, and missed my grandmothers by even less than that. I will never forget the look in the sky through the lightening and the way the atmosphere felt. Seeing the sky in this video made me nauseous, its legitimately sickening to me. Awesome video! Here in western KY we are set for some really rough weather here within the next few hours. Not ready for it, at all. Storm anxiety matched with living in a double wide with absolutely nowhere to go to seek shelter other than a radar and hitting the road, just exacerbates it.
My daughter and her family live there and my son in law works in an office by the mall. I live all the way in San Diego and I was so frightened when she let me know what was happening!!! He was uninjured but trapped inside his building for a while. He made it home though!!! Thank God the tornado didn't hit their house with all my precious family members in it. 🙏🙏 I pray that there were no fatalities in this tiny little town.
Glad everyone was safe! No fatalies at all thank the Lord...there has been people with injuries but not major..which is another blessing. Again blessings everyone is ok...have a great day!
Stay safe while helping others💖
I just finished college at WMU a few miles north of there just over a week ago. Crazy stuff! There is an uncanny resemblance to the storm that happened back in February, that was also tornado warned and followed this exact path.
I was out storm chasing way away but I thought it looked like a monster storm! I got some pretty awesome pictures of the storm in the distance. I hope everyone is ok
Ohhhhhhh my ! That is really a huge tornado.
Thank you for catching this footage! I live at Oakland and Centre and my neighborhood got hit pretty bad. Thank you also for the comment about the gawkers.
Nice job.
May I recommend Rain X for the windows? It allows me to use the delay setting on my windshield wipers.
Missed my hotel in portage by a mile or so. What crazy eventful day yesterday! So far everyone was blessed and spared their lives 🙌
Great footage 😊. Prayers are with them folks
There was a rainbow under it. Hmmm.
Outstanding video! Thanks for staying calm.
You bet!, let the weather speak for itself.
@@StormChasingVideo yet you gripe about gawker slowdown when you are one of them
Conveniently cuts out the part where he runs the red light 😂
Terrible !!!!!! Thanks for the Update ... I'm in Lenawee county.. Michigan
Michigan has been lucky up until now. I guess we can't complain. Prayers for all affected.
A tornado outbreak in Michigan is something that I don’t think happens very often so who knows how prepared people were. Hopefully people were prepared & hopefully everyone is ok
Tornadoes do occur in Michigan but they usually do not exceed an EF-2 on the scale of damage with tornadoes greater than EF-3 being very uncommon and rare. A warmer winter like last winter may have led to this event due to more moisture in the air along with warmer temperatures which led to higher dew points and increased odds of severe weather which included tornadoes. I live in Southeast Michigan and our Peak season is between May and July. That means that we are just at the beginning of our tornado season and there could be more to come as we get closer to summer.
Sure is a greenish color this time around
The green color happens when there is a lot of hail in the core. This one absolutely had large hail, hence the greenish yellow color.
At 0:35, he drives right past the Southland Mall shopping complex. I work at the Kohl's in that complex and was at work when the tornado hit. Very scary to see this footage, had the tornado hit a mile further north it would've directly hit us. Praying for all those affected.
I live about 25 minutes from Kalamazoo
We got missed luckily but my brother and sister-in-law had to take cover at a business and It literally just passed over them
We don't normally get tornadoes like this in Michigan that often
We had a state emergency
1:40 blows through a red light staring at the tornado.
Terrible tornado season and it’s now come to Michigan. This tornado took out huge chunks of a new FedEx building in Portage. Praying everyone is safe.
Nice little rainbow. Great job. So bas I am going to see if my house is still standing. Its not far from the trailerpark that got hit
Intense green sky reminds me of a twister I saw back east in the fall of the year. Lost 14 trees, power was out for 3days and the road had tree falls blocking any traffic for 2 days.
I was watching Ryan Hall's stream, the debris ball of this thing was *HUGE.*
At like two and a half minutes there's a rainbow in that tornado
We had alot of tornadoes today. I work by FedEx and we had to go in the basement 3 times after I got to work. Prying for those who lost alot.
I live here. Thanks for the coverage! 🙏
RFD hit my place, don't think tornado was on the ground yet
I was on the phone with family in Portage when they got the alert for the second one. I called her kids to tell them to go back to the basement(I’m in GA.). She had just left Walmart, after they took cover for the first one. She had to go back to Walmart, because she couldn’t make it home safely before the other one hit. Back to back! Absolutely insane.
It’s crazy to see storm chasing videos like these and you recognize every single road and building. That target is like 4-5 miles from me and I drive by it every day
Love that you don’t shout and scream that there’s a tornado… can’t stand that!
Just calm reporting and not super repetitive stating the obvious. Some of the storm chasers are hard to watch bcs of their shouting and repeating over & over again… if I watch them at all I will put them on mute
Was working the center street taphouse when it hit had trees snapping and our patio furniture flying around all of center street is messed up from Oakland to the taphouse
thank you for sharing!
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Kalamazoo/Portage has had a storm this bad since 1980 - crazy stuff! Glad everyone's safe in my hometown.
I think you are correct
Great video of the storm! Be safe out there. My condolences to everyone who was affected by this storm.
I’ve lived in Texas and seen many! Always been fascinated with tornadoes! I now live in Southwest Michigan. Looks like F2/3
That 🌈 was beautiful!
That was commercial roofing foam. Goes on flat roofs before the rubber roof membrane. It's very light and would easily get sucked way up into a storm.
That gave me chills, how frigging scary!!!
I live in Ohio. Just had a tornado hit a couple miles away from my house yesterday. About 5 tornados that happened yesterday. Hoping everyone stays safe
The scariest part is that it's so rain-wrapped that you wouldn't even know it's there if you don't know what to look for, and even then it's hard to tell, couldn't even see the debris until the storm chaser got closer...
Nice work, Blake!!
The shades of green are both menacing and astoundingly magnificent...
Good Lord Almighty...
Back to back tornadoes...
You are in our thoughts amd prayers...
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Ooohhh...the green sky!😳
Classic extreme sky colors.
the fact i was like 2 miles from this is insane
runs red light and then honks horn at person legally driving in parking lot while he illegally drives through the parking lot
Full disclosure from the videographer. I slowly yielded through two red lights, looked both ways before proceeding as a significant tornado materialized less than a mile to the south of my location. There was no manic action to the maneuver, nor do I consider myself above the law in doing so considering the situation that was unfolding. I honked at the driver in the Target parking lot who was focused on the tornado as a cautionary "please don't drive into me" notice as I went to park and view as the tornado moved east. When a significant tornado is ongoing, certainly in a metropolitan area, the main focus is to get off a main road, in this instance Westnedge Ave, to view and send in a report to the National Weather Service. It all comes down to situational awareness in a very turbulent atmosphere. I'm sorry if you were offended by that illegal maneuver and/or the cut edit in this video, of which the full edit will be available in the near future.
yah, this dude literally complained about gawkers when he is one of them
@@Krobear All I was noting were the hundreds of vehicles streaming intentionally into the damaged area after the tornado, while I was navigating driving away.
You ran that red light, didn't you?
thought the same thing
strange time to cut away lol
Who cares?
Why did you watch the video? To complain like a crybaby 🤡
It seems like the intentional red-light edit is raising some eyebrows. I did indeed yield and drive through two red lights, driving through at 20 mph as a significant tornado passed to my south and east. I needed to get off the main road, Westnedge Ave, to stop, view and submit a report to the National Weather Service.
I grew up just south of Portage. I've traveled westnedge dozens of times. This was devastating
Great video. WE aren't used to this in Michigan so quite scary. Hoping to get out today and check things out.
Green sky means go! Run don't walk to shelter. I'm a life long Michigander and I can say these events are rare, especially the size of the tornado and the appearance on radar. Looked like something from TX/OK/Kansas/Neb/Iowa not Michigan!
Oh my gosh. I lived there & worked at the restaurant infront of crossroads mall. Gezzz. I hope everyone is ok
Oh my God please be safe. Praying for everyone's safety
I see a rainbow at 2:46
3:03 that debris looks to be a sheet of insulation.
Watch it all afternoon and night! Whew just missed Ionia co. My heart hurts for Portage. Been thru this and don’t want to again!
I wonder what rating it got on the EF scale? It looks like an EF-3 to me.
WOW ! THANK YOU FOR CHASING SIR. WE ALL THANK YOU . STAY SAFE ! 🇺🇲
It Got Very Dark in Detroit too Tornado like skies I shared it underneath my CZcams Shorts
I have watched this several times, and since I was in the area when this happened, I was curious what others saw. I didn't see any (or very, very little) rotation, even in watching this video. It seems like this is a classic case of just severe straight-line wind storm. How else can you tell the difference if you can't see any rotation? I understand different classifications and all of that, but I have seen several storms in my life, living in various parts of the country, from when I lived in AL, NC, KS, IL, NE and now MI, and sometimes it is easy to see the tornado funnel and rotation, and other times it isn't there. Straight-line storms certainly have the power to appear like tornados. In the end, it doesn't really matter when you have to deal with the damage the storm creates and leaves.
That thing's rain wrapped too... Imagine a monster tornado plowing on through and you can't even see it. This is why warnings are so crucial.
The green tint was definitely visible prior to the tornado
That creepy green Hue yeah I won't either I see other people have said it too. Oklahoma
That green sky. I was a sr in hs, waiting to be let out of our last class for the day before softball practice. Looked out the window, joked about practice getting rained out, then asked the teacher why the sky was green. His eyes got so big and he ran out the room. All students in our small school were hearded into a gym, then tbe cafeteria as the roof started to lift in the gym. Afterwards we walked outside to complete devastation. The hail decimated everything, the tornado was weak but messy.
Green skies haunt me
This was scary. I was at Westnedge and Romence Rd when this hit Romence and Lovers Ln. (Half mile ahead of me) I thought, I might not make it out of this one. Thank God there were no casualties.