LANSING, Mich. — Thursday afternoon, the National Weather Service Office in northern Indiana confirmed a ninth tornado in the state of Michigan from the 04/14 - 04/15 severe weather event. The tornado has yet to be rated on the EF Scale, but damage was observed south and southeast of Coldwater. We will keep you updated with further updates. The other eight confirmed tornadoes ranged from the strength EF-0 to EF-1.
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A Dense Fog Advisory is currently in effect across all of our neighborhoods through 11 AM Friday morning as visibility across our neighborhoods has only been observed at a quarter of a mile or less. Make sure when heading out on the roads this morning to leave some extra time, use your low beams, and to leave some extra distance between cars to get to your destination safely.
By the afternoon hours, fog will dissipate and surface high pressure will influence our forecast briefly with clearing skies allowing for sunshine and warming temperatures into the mid 70's. We will gradually see wind speeds increase for a breezy end to the day. However, this afternoon will still be a good opportunity to head back outdoors.
We are still monitoring flooding concerns from all of the showers and storms we've seen this week and a lot of our local river sites in the Lansing area are currently in minor flood stage including the Grand River at Lansing which recently met minor flood stage early Friday morning. Cresting at these sites continue into the weekend with flood warnings across Mid-Michigan ongoing.
Water receding to local river sites will continue as another round of thunderstorms arrives overnight tonight. We are expecting this next round to arrive after midnight at around 1 AM Friday and last through 6 AM Friday with tame showers following through 11 AM Friday.
The Storm Prediction Center has issued a marginal risk for isolated severe storms during this time across portions of Eaton County and far west areas of Jackson and Hillsdale counties. Main threats include damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph, an isolated tornado threat, and heavy rainfall rates.
We will gradually cool our temperatures throughout the day Saturday with more sunshine possible in the afternoon. We will dry up Sunday with another warm up and returning precipitation midweek next week.
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