7 tornadoes confirmed, more possible tornado sites surveyed after powerful storms strike Michigan

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4. I didn't realize that Minnesota and the Dakotas

get so many tornadoes.

Here on western NY, we sometimes get storms a few hours or a day after Michigan. They blow across Lake Erie. If a storm is large enough, we get it almost at the same time. The night that the latest Michigan tornadoes struck, we got strong thunderstorms here overnight, but no tornadoes or watches for any.

A supercell storm can produce tornadoes across bodies of water. In 1985, a supercell storm out of eastern Ohio produced several tornadoes across eastern Ohio, northwestern PA across to central PA, to western NY, and across the lake and Niagara River into Ontario. The strengths of the twisters ranged from EF1 to a few EF3s, and at least one EF4. Several deaths. Whole towns wiped out.