GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – A single spinning storm cell dropped a picturesque twister in northern Michigan’s Antrim County on Monday night.
The twister then traveled over Torch Lake, sucking up water and turning into a tornadic waterspout. The twister crossed Torch Lake earlier than persevering with east and finally dissipating.
The Nationwide Climate Service in Gaylord, Michigan, issued a twister warning at 5:57 p.m. for central Antrim County shortly after rotation was noticed on radar. The storm was pretty remoted, with the twister dropping from a comparatively excessive cloud base. These circumstances made the tornado very straightforward to identify throughout the northern Michigan panorama.
Was it a twister or was it a waterspout?
Tornadoes can contact down on land or water. In reality, tornadoes can contact down nearly anyplace. There’s meteorological proof in recent times displaying confirmed tornadoes in valleys, on mountains, and monitoring over rivers and thru cities.
When a twister touches down or travels over water, it turns into a “tornadic waterspout.” The Antrim County twister on Monday night is now Michigan’s thirty first of the yr.
Truthful-weather waterspouts type from clouds over water. These begin from the water and stretch as much as meet the sky. These dissipate when hitting land and usually are not categorized as an official twister.
