Michigan severe thunderstorms: Live weather, radar updates

Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press
Updated ·2 min read

The weather radar for Michigan looks ominous Tuesday. As of morning, most of the Lower Peninsula is covered in rain with hazardous weather expected throughout the state.

Washtenaw, Lenawee and Monroe counties are under a severe thunderstorm watch until 12 p.m., accoring to the National Weather Service. A line of storms is expected to mainly impact the area along and west of Interstate 75 and possibly bring damaging winds gusts up to 60 mph, heavy rainfall, lightning, hail up to 1 inch and flooding.

More: NWS advises avoiding Lake Michigan beaches Tuesday as storms approach

However, there's also a marginal risk of of severe storms for all of southeast Michigan as the storms move in a southeast direction.

Storms are also possible Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning with a marginal risk for severe intensity storms. The greatest risk will be along and south of I-94. Damaging wind near 60 mph, hail around 1 inch and flooding are possible.

Be prepared for whatever is in Michigan's weather forecast with live doppler radar from the National Weather Service below. We also have resources on how to check your power outage status.

Michigan weather radar

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Power outages in Michigan

Consumers Energy had 151,044 customers affected by power outages as of 9:30 a.m. DTE had 2,413 customers without power as the line of storms approached the metro Detroit region.

Avoid Lake Michigan beaches during storm surge

The NWS expected dangerous waves and currents Tuesday in Lake Michigan from the storms hitting the state. It urged people to stay out of the water and not go onto piers through Tuesday evening.

Michigan meterologist Bill Steffen reported a storm surge on Lake Michigan at Holland State Park in Holland and said the water was still rising. He said waves increased from 3 feet to 7.2 feet in one hour, according to his posts on X.

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