Gaylord tornado

One person has died and more than 40 more people have been injured by the tornado in northern Michigan.

Steven Bischer shared a 54-second video to Facebook showing some of the damage caused by the tornado. Michigan State Police had tweeted on Friday: "Trees and power lines blocking roadways. People stay out of Gaylord you won't get in town your slowing the rescuers down. "My trailer used to sit right here," Young said in a second video, pointing behind him. Here's my motorcycle." I wonder if it's—a lot of it's my neighbor's stuff."

The National Weather Service determined a rare set of weather conditions converged to produce this storm over Northern Michigan.

This was the first direct hit on Gaylord by a tornado, according to NWS records going back to 1950, meteorologists said. “It is very rare for this magnitude of all of these variables to come together at once across northern Michigan.” “As this segment moved further away from the cold front, it began to transition into a supercell thunderstorm,” NWS staff said.

A strong tornado moved through Gaylord, Michigan Friday afternoon around 3:50 pm. The tornado resulted in one fatality and 44 injuries (not counting those ...

GAYLORD, Mich. (AP) — A rare northern Michigan tornado tore through a small community on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 40 ...

There were a lot of emergency vehicles heading from the east side of town.” The last time Gaylord had a severe wind storm was in 1998, when straight-line winds reached 100 mph, Keysor said. Other video showed extensive damage along the city's Main Street. One building appeared to be largely collapsed and a Goodwill store was badly damaged. “There are roofs ripped off businesses, a row of industrial-type warehouses,” Thrasher said. Brian Lawson, a spokesman for Munson Healthcare, said Otsego Memorial Hospital was treating 23 people injured by the tornado and that one person was killed. The patrol planned to hold a briefing Saturday morning.

At least one person has died, and 44 others were injured when a tornado touched down in Gaylord, Michigan on Friday, according to Gaylord Mayor Todd ...

I didn’t even make it down to the worst part, but it was like driving around a warzone.” The E-Free church housed about 10 people as cleanup was underway the night of the natural disaster. Let’s all hug our families a little tighter, and let’s all work together to rebuild and recover from this storm together.” We are resilient. And then I kind of went down in town just a little ways and started to see all the damage to the buildings. “I saw power poles snapped in half,” said Pastor Scott Distler. “You basically had to navigate like a warzone.

GAYLORD, Mich. — A second person died in a rare tornado that hit a small community in northern Michigan, state police said Saturday. The person was in their ...

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Severe weather struck the northern Michigan town Thursday afternoon, leaving at least two dead and injuring more than 40 people. Michigan State Police gave an ...

Two people are dead from the tornado that touched down Friday in Gaylord, according to the Michigan State Police.

Affordable housing Up North is hard to come by and there is a shortage of rentals for workers. Those who want to donate can take items, such as gas cards, toiletries and snacks, to the E-Free Church in Gaylord on East M-32. Mann said there is no need for clothes donations. "I've got a lot of resources to get stuff gone." There is a hole in the home's roof. "Northern Michigan, especially a town like Gaylord getting hit like this is insane." Ouellette, a city councilman for Gaylord, said he took shelter in the basement of the home he shares with his wife, Connie, after seeing the tornado's funnel cloud. "I watched her literally get slammed with debris and particles from the flooring," he said. He later returned to Gaylord after retiring from law enforcement and bought the house from his mother. But the damage is not as bad as in other areas of town, she said. Frank Claeys, Gaylord's chief of police, said the tornado decimated about a three-block stretch of his small town. The state of Michigan averages about 15 tornadoes within a given year. There's a lot of danger out there."

At a press conference Saturday morning, Michigan State Police public information officer Spl. Lt. Derrick Carroll said the second deceased victim was in their ...

“Given the atmosphere that we had yesterday it was not surprising this happened, but even for up here that’s very unusual.” “This is pretty unusual for up here.” It moved at 55 mph and took about three minutes to go through town, he said. We've had a lot of volunteers out with heavy equipment.” “The storm, we believe as a rough estimate, was on the ground for approximately 26 minutes, but we’ll have a better idea of that once we get on site,” he said. The person was dead when found by rescue crews.

The video depicts the formation of a supercell storm that would later spawn a devastating tornado that killed two and at least 44 injured.

The Michigan State Police announced in an tweet Saturday that a hotline had been set up for inquiries about missing persons. More coverage of Gaylord tornado Deadly tornado that struck Gaylord was a rare storm

Michigan State Police said the Gaylord tornado that touched down Friday killed two people. The second victim was found in a home overnight.

A few of the injured residents are getting help from three other hospitals in the surrounding area. Verizon has set up towers at the scene to assist with this. Authorities want people to avoid the area - if you had plans to come up this weekend, reschedule it and visit somewhere else. A declaration authorizes the Michigan State Police Emergency Management and Homeland Security to coordinate our state effort - above and beyond what MSP has already been doing in conjunction with these phenomenal local agencies." "As soon as we looked into the store, it was just mayhem.it blew the whole front door off, the front part of the building, tore half of the roof off. "We didn't hear anything, until the building came apart," he said.

OTSEGO COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- Governor Gretchen Whitmer saw the tornado destruction in Gaylord first-hand Friday evening. One person was killed when ...

“My heart goes out to the families and small businesses impacted by the tornado and severe weather in Gaylord,” Whitmer said. The declaration of a local state of emergency activates local emergency response and recovery plans. "Michiganders are tough.

Two people are dead after a powerful tornado ripped roofs off buildings and flipped cars in a northern Michigan town on Friday, prompting the governor to ...

We will do what it takes to rebuild." "There had been trailers picked up and turned over on top of each other and, you know, just a very large debris field from the trailers." "I imagine it was deafening for those in its path," Smith said. "It took out an insane amount of buildings and just jeopardized so many lives," said Jordan Awrey, a Gaylord city council member. "My heart goes out to the families and small businesses impacted by the tornado and severe weather in Gaylord," she said on social media. Roads were also blocked by downed trees and powerlines.

The deaths were reported in a mobile home park on the outskirts of Gaylord, where crews continued to search the wreckage on Saturday.

Crews continued to look on Saturday for a person who was reported missing from another part of the region. One of them was found overnight Friday during a search of the mobile home park with a cadaver dog. “Up here, stuff like this doesn’t happen,” said Joshua Comoford, 22, who was handing out drinks to firefighters and volunteers on Saturday at the mobile home park. As cleanup began on Saturday, and as more than 40 people were treated for injuries, officials struggled to make sense of the damage in a region where tornadoes are rare. Mr. Clayton said he had heard about the coming storm only because of a call from his older brother, Declan, who was at a Meijer gas station just down the street and saw swirling winds and circling birds in the sky. Smashed bricks and shattered plywood were strewn outside the entrance of a Tropical Smoothie Cafe.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency Friday in Otsego County after a tornado touched down in Gaylord and tore through the northern Michigan ...

Many cars in the parking lot have shattered windows. A Goodwill Store in Gaylord was also damaged. It authorizes Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division to coordinate state efforts a and beyond what has already been done in conjunction with local agencies. She said she first saw warnings about the storm on television. "It was very stressful ... I've never been through one." The tornado came through quick.