April 26, 2011: Michigan Supercells near Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo

Caught the funnel that produced the Burnips Tornado rated an EF0. Was unable to capture video because I was to busy making a report to the NWS and WOODTV8. After that storm passed over me i dropped south without any internet and caught the storm coming through Kalamazoo. It had some nice structure and rotation. As I drove through Richland, MI, I encountered a hail core of quarters to ping pong size hail, covering the ground. I caught some video of this but it was way to shaky to even bother putting in this report. The storm then became tornado warned and my GPS went on the fritz. I could not restart my computer and had to stop and regroup. By the time I was able to get things back online the rotation had passed just over head and I followed the cell until it was evident it was in its dying phase near Woodbury on M-66 and M-50. check out my full report with pics at http:midwestchasers.com/blog2

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[megonester]

ohmigod i wondered why i had to go down to the basement tht one night lol

it was like at 1:00 in the morning i needed my sleep ok?!

[midwestchaser]

@megonester This storm had long since dissipated by 1am. You might be thinking of a different date.

[AmbrosioLover]

@Ilovetoact13 me to 

[Ilovetoact13]

I live in michigan

[skywarn6118]

Great footage! I have video of this cell as the Grand Rapids National Weather Service reissued a tornado warning on it just north east of Nashville!

[skywarn6118]

Great video.... I have footage of this cell as Grand Rapids National Weather Service reissued a tornado warning on it near Nashville.