{"id":203206,"date":"2026-03-07T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/6-dead-in-apparent-tornadoes-in-michigan-and-oklahoma-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:17:02","slug":"6-dead-in-apparent-tornadoes-in-michigan-and-oklahoma-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/6-dead-in-apparent-tornadoes-in-michigan-and-oklahoma-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"6 dead in apparent tornadoes in Michigan and Oklahoma – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Six people are dead following unconfirmed tornadoes in Michigan and Oklahoma on Friday, authorities said.
Powerful storms have ripped across Michigan, tearing the roof off a home improvement store, sending parts of a storage building flying and knocking down trees as tornado warnings were issued across the southern part of the state.
The Branch County Sheriff\u2019s Office said there were 12 reported injuries and three deaths after a tornado appeared to have hit the Union Lake area which is about 125 miles west of Detroit.
In Cass County, about 170 miles west of Detroit, Sheriff Clint Roach confirmed one storm-related fatality and said several people were injured, according to a statement from county spokesperson Ambrosia Neldon.
And in Oklahoma, Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice said a suspected tornado claimed the lives of two people from the same family. Details were unavailable.
In St. Joseph County, Michigan, next to the Indiana border, the sheriff\u2019s office told residents to \u201cseek shelter immediately\u201d following reports of an unconfirmed tornado, a severe thunderstorm watch and possible winds more than 60 mph.
\u201cCitizens should anticipate power outages, closed roadways and\/or neighborhoods and cellular\/internet interruptions,\u201d the office said on Facebook.
At her home near Union City, Lisa Piper can be heard repeatedly yelling out, \u201cOh my God,\u201d as she films from her back deck a ferocious rotating column of air that appears to be a tornado tear through an section of buildings across the lake from her. As its size grows, pulling large pieces of debris into the air, she says, \u201cIt\u2019s lifting houses.\u201d
\u201cOh my heart is pounding,\u201d she says in the video. \u201cOh, I hope they\u2019re OK.\u201d
The state activated its Emergency Operations Center as officials responded to serious wind damage and reports of injuries in multiple southwest Michigan counties.
In Edwardsburg, Michigan, area, near the Indiana border, officials reported downed trees and several homes that had been heavily damaged, and warned residents to avoid the area.
Powerful storms were forming Friday afternoon in Michigan and all the way to North Texas. There were no immediate confirmed reports of a tornado on the ground, but many videos posted online showed violent, rotating columns of air in Michigan.
Weather also took the lives of two family members in Oklahoma on Thursday.
A 47-year-old woman and her 13-year-old daughter <\/a>from Fairview were found dead in a vehicle near an intersection of a highway and a county road at about 10 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. The crash \u201cappears to be tornado related,\u201d Sarah Stewart, a spokesperson for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, said in a statement.
\u201cSevere weather struck Major County last night and tragically claimed the lives of a mother and daughter,\u201d Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said in a statement Friday. \u201cI am praying for the family as they grieve this tragic loss, as well as all those impacted by the storms.\u201d
In an eerie scene captured on video Thursday<\/a>, a first responder drove straight at a storm near the western Oklahoma town, where flashes of lightning illuminated a giant funnel that appeared to reach the ground. That storm, among the first outbreaks of severe weather on the verge of the spring storm season, was filmed by a camera mounted on the deputy\u2019s car.
The National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma, planned to send out a damage survey crew Friday to see whether Thursday night\u2019s storms were confirmed tornadoes, meteorologist Ryan Bunker said. \u201cAs of right now, we\u2019re still investigating that.\u201d
More than 7 million Americans were at the highest risk of severe weather Friday in an area that includes the metropolitan areas of Kansas City, Missouri; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Omaha, Nebraska, according to the national Storm Prediction Center. Nearly 25 million people were at a slightly lesser risk in a zone that includes Dallas, Oklahoma City, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Severe, scattered thunderstorms are expected Friday evening from areas of the Plains states to the Ozarks and Midwest, the National Weather Service said.
\u201cThe greatest potential for a few strong tornadoes and very large hail should exist across eastern portions of Oklahoma\/Kansas\/Nebraska into western Arkansas\/Missouri and southern Iowa,\u201d it said.
The general setup for the strong storms is a clash between warm air streaming north from the Gulf Coast and cooler Canadian air behind cold fronts, according to meteorologists with the private forecasting service AccuWeather.
\u201cThis is probably our first real event this season where people are really starting to pay attention getting into the spring storm season,\u201d said Melissa Mayes, deputy director of the Washington County Emergency Management Agency in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, north of Tulsa.
The spring storms in the forecast come near the start of what many call tornado season, which generally begins at different times in different parts of the U.S. Experts recommend a few simple safety steps<\/a> to take before tornadoes hit, including having a weather radio and a plan for where to take shelter.
Meanwhile, parts of the Northeast were under winter weather advisories as rain, snow and slush made for a messy morning commute from Pennsylvania to Maine on Friday. Several vehicle slide-offs were also reported on the Maine Turnpike as drivers contended with sleet and snow.
Some schools canceled or delayed classes in states including New Hampshire and Maine.
The weather began to ease at midmorning in some areas, but Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut remained under weather advisories. In Ohio, flood warnings were issued in the southern part of the state.
In parts of the southern U.S., the weather pattern is also expected to usher in extremely warm temperatures for this time of year by the weekend.
\u201cTemperatures will be 20-30 degrees above average, with 80s reaching as far north as parts of the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic,\u201d federal forecasters wrote in their long-range forecast discussion. \u201cDaily records could become widespread.\u201d
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