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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 07:38:07 EDT
Here is the report from the NWS:
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS, MI
620 PM EDT MON AUG 26 2003
...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETERMINES STRAIGHTLINE THUNDERSTORM
WINDS CAUSE DAMAGE IN JACKSON AND CALHOUN COUNTIES...
ON MONDAY EVENING TREES WERE KNOCKED DOWN IN SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY
AS WELL AS SOME POWER LINES. A TEAM OF METEOROLOGISTS SURVEYED THE
DAMAGE TODAY AND DETERMINED THAT IT WAS DUE TO STRAIGHTLINE
THNDERSTORM WINDS OF UP TO 60 MPH.
ALSO ON MONDAY EVENING NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES WERE KNOCKED
DOWN IN CALHOUN COUNTY, SOUTHEAST OF BATTLE CREEK. TREES FELL
ON TWO HOMES CAUSING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO ONE OF THEM. SOME
SHINGLES WERE BLOWN OFF HOMES AND ONE HOME HAD A GARAGE DOOR
DAMAGED. A SMALL BARN WAS ALSO DESTROYED. A SURVEY TEAM DETERMINED
THAT THIS DAMAGE WAS ALSO CAUSED BY STRAIGHTLINE THUNDERSTORM WINDS
OF UP TO 60 TO 70 MPH.
From the Battle Creek Enq. paper:
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/news/stories/20030827/localnews/137034.html
QUOTES:
"Paul Wilson was sitting in the dark when he felt his house shudder from
the summer storm.
"I felt a gust of wind that shook the house," he said Tuesday. "Every time
the wind came, I felt the whole house shake."
Outside, with the wind, hail began to strike the side of the house where he
had been living just a week.
"I had lost power about 15 minutes before and I couldn't sleep, so I was
just sitting around in the dark."
He didn't know anything was really wrong until he looked outside and saw
something strange each time the thunderstorm lit the sky.
"In the lightning flashes, I saw the roof of the barn was sitting down low."
The 120-by 24-foot barn, filled with hay, and a pole building attached to
it, had crumpled to the ground, burying Wilson's truck and bales of hay in
the rubble.
The barn was one of the major reports of damage from the storm, which
struck just before midnight, knocking over trees, knocking out power and
disrupting the lives of thousands of people.
The National Weather Service believes straight-line winds caused the
damage, Mike Healthfield, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service
in Grand Rapids, said after survey teams were sent to study the damage
Tuesday.
"It wasn't real strong because it was trees (which were damaged)," he said.
"Everything we surveyed showed straight line winds of 60 to 70 miles per
hour. There is no indication of a tornado." "
PHOTOS: "Alex Radcliff surveys the damage done to her father Troy
Radcliff's barn on 8-Mile Road after it collapsed during a storm Monday night."
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