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Tornadoes, Huge Hail Tear Through Wisconsin and Iowa as Multi-Day Severe Storm Threat Continues

More than 59,000 outages were reported in Michigan as tornadoes, hail and flooding damaged buildings and forced rescues across the region.

  • On Tuesday, tornado warnings forced students and staff at the University of Michigan and University of Arkansas to take shelter as severe storms continued across the southern Plains to Upper Midwest region.
  • More than 62,000 customers in Michigan and more than 20,000 in Wisconsin lost power Wednesday morning, according to PowerOutage.us, following destructive storms that swept through earlier this week.
  • Powerful thunderstorms brought 80 mph wind gusts to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and softball-sized hail near Maple Bluff, Wisconsin, while a destructive twister near Union Center, Wisconsin, damaged multiple structures, prompting a "particularly dangerous situation" warning.
  • Rising floodwaters forced rescues in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where five vehicles became stranded near Timmerman Airport, and authorities in Cheboygan, Michigan, issued evacuation notices along the Cheboygan River following a levee breach.
  • A Level 2 of 4 flash flooding threat remains in place for the Upper Midwest on Wednesday; the region faces continued caution as rivers run high, though the storm threat is expected to decrease by Thursday.
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Tornadoes and baseball sized hail slam portions of Midwest as severe weather outbreak expands

A multi-day outbreak that began Monday will continue through the end of the week from the southern Plains to the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region.

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Journal Sentinel broke the news in Milwaukee, United States on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.
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