4/13 - 4/14 Severe Threat

[Powerball]

69 MPH wind gust reported at DTW...

Somewhat surprisingly (even for it being nighttime), the MI storm reports are quite sparse for now...

[KeenerWx]

Not a drop, but watched a good light show to the north. Palatable bust. 

[nwohweather]

69 MPH wind gust reported at DTW...
Somewhat surprisingly (even for it being nighttime), the MI storm reports are quite sparse for now...

Eh everyone’s asleep. Heck my whole family is snoring right now

[Powerball]

11 minutes ago, nwohweather said:

Eh everyone’s asleep. Heck my whole family is snoring right now

Still, given how much the map was lit up with warnings, and all the places that were seemingly slammed per radar, I would have expected to see at least a bit more than 5 reports on the SPC page.

But I'm sure more (delayed) reports will gradually trickle in throughout the morning.

[WestMichigan]

Two reports of tornadoes in my part of the state.  The one earlier mentioned around Carson City and another near Otsego and Plainwell that crossed US-131.  Just lots of rain IMBY.  My county was briefly under a warning but I don't believe anything ever touched down.

[King James]

Not a drop, but watched a good light show to the north. Palatable bust. 

Feel like that stuff was always going to stay north. I woke up myself and watched maybe 15 minutes of the light show to my north

Kind of cool being down here in IKK and watching lightning that’s out over the lake

[michsnowfreak]

My phone woke me at 2am with the tornado warning alert. I ended up being up 2 hours. The storm was wicked but no tornado here. Possible one 3 miles north. Got 0.82" rain. 

Looks like quite a bit of damage noted in ann arbor, Dearborn, lincoln park. 

The constant lightning illuminated the black cloud overhead 

[sbnwx85]

Thundery rain here but some severe thunderstorm warnings about an hour south of me rn.

[A-L-E-K]

pound town

 

[A-L-E-K]

Bass taking it to the dome

 

 

 

[Baum]

37 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

pound town

 

Good time to get in the siding business 

[A-L-E-K]

 

[pen_artist]

15 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

 

One of the worst too when it comes to the overhype

[Chinook]

My place got heavy rain and two tornado warnings in Wood County OH for (perhaps) weaker rotations

[andyhb]

Tornado just went right through the middle of Clinton MO. Using this thread since it's the same system.

[TheNiño]

Third tornado warning in as many days here 

[SchaumburgStormer]

Lot of moving parts trying to spin one up over Rockford 

[cyclone77]

A couple of bird fart tors may have dropped southwest of the QC over the past half hour.

[Chinook]

45 minutes ago, TheNiño said:

Third tornado warning in as many days here 

That's crazy

It's almost like US Air Force forecasters Fawbush and Miller, who got hit by a tornado at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma on March 20, 1948. Then, in the next days, they looked at the maps. They predicted a tornado on March 25! Then it happened. And then the US Weather Bureau stopped banning the word "tornado" and started to learn how to forecast them, leading to the first establishment of the office that we now call, the SPC.

[Chinook]

On 4/14/2026 at 2:57 AM, Torchageddon said:

The most historic part of the night may be how there was a strong tornado (KC) in a spot that this morning didn't even have a general thunderstorm risk area!! I have no memory of this happening before.

Here's the verification