BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) – A fast moving line of storms rocked the area on Tuesday morning with yet another round of severe weather.
The storms that moved in from the north darkened the skies during the 8:00 a.m. hour. The storms mostly featured heavy rain, quarter inch hail and strong winds with gusts up to 50 miles an hour.
Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued for Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Branch and St. Joseph Counties.
As of midday, over 149,000 Consumers Energy customers system wide lost their power including about 380 in Branch County and over 4,500 in Calhoun County.
There were over 11,000 customers out in Kalamazoo County and nearly 1,500 were out in St. Joseph County.
The M.S.U. Extension Service weather station at the Bloom Dairy Farm measured just over a half inch of rain (0.53) between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
That’s on top of the 68-hundreths of an inch of rain that was measured at that location Sunday morning.
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