Areas around Portage, Kalamazoo and Union City appeared to be hard hit. A resident described “carnage... like something out of a movie” at a mobile home park in Kalamazoo.
Tornadoes swept through southern Michigan on Tuesday, causing destruction in the city of Portage — where employees were temporarily trapped inside a FedEx facility — and damaging a mobile home park in Kalamazoo, where a resident described “carnage … like something out of a movie.”
The twisters also impacted a mobile home park in Pavilion Township as well as numerous residences and businesses, he said. The National Weather Service will conduct an assessmentFedEx said the company was monitoring the situation. Part of the roof of its Portage facility collapsed after the tornado struck,
in an update shared on social media late Tuesday. “We expect many downed power lines, damage to many residential and commercial buildings, and trees blocking roads.”shared overnight that about 176 homes were damaged at the mobile home park in Pavilion Township, in addition to between 15 and 17 that had been destroyed. Around 16-20 people were injured and went to the hospital, although none were in a life-threatening condition, he said.
Their neighbor’s porch slammed into their home, denting it, but theirs was one of the few that emerged relatively unscathed, they said.Fletcher and his nephew set out to help and the first thing he saw was a pickup truck crushed by a tree. “And then after we got past the tree, that’s where you see all the carnage,” he said. “It was really like something out of a movie.”
The tornadoes struck the Midwest, Great Lakes and Ohio Valley just one day after a violent EF4 tornado on theA warm front extending east from the low pressure zone served as the main conduit for the tornado-producing thunderstorms in southern Michigan.At one point there were multiple concurrent “particularly dangerous situation” tornado warnings in addition to the tornado emergency for Union City.
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