(HURON COUNTY) – Just as many witnesses had reported, the National Weather Service has confirmed an EF-0 tornado touched down in Port Austin on Saturday, July 24.
It is the second tornado to hit the area in the last four weeks. According to the National Weather Service, the tornado Saturday, captured on many video feeds, produced damage consistent with EF-0 intensity, with winds up to 80 mph.
The last tornado to impact Huron County was an EF-2 in Port Austin on June 26. The tornado’s path was nearly three miles long, touching down near the intersection of N. Hellman and Grindstone Road, one mile east of Port Austin.
After the tornado touched down an outbuilding was destroyed, marking its peak intensity of 80 mph winds, the NWS said.
As the tornado tracked east, a field of soybean crops was damaged.
Numerous trees were then damaged as the tornado approached Sullivan Road.
It then continued east causing damage to a fence line before lifting near Tomlinson Road.
The tornado was one of at least four confirmed in the state, including one in the northern Macomb County community of Armada where the downtown district sustained heavy damage.
Officials have closed the downtown area during clean-up.
No injuries were reported.
