Areas southeast of Lansing, including Williamston, were hardest hit; more than a million people lost power from Michigan to Pennsylvania.
the five deaths from the storms. It said one person died and multiple people were injured amid the flipped vehicles on I-96; three people were killed in a hydroplane accident near Cedar Springs in western Michigan, about 20 miles north of Grand Rapids; and another person died near Lansing, where a tree fell on a home.
Severe tornado damage was reported near I-96 between the city of Williamston and village of Webberville, about 15 and 20 miles east-southeast of Lansing, respectively.Ahead of the storms, the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center had upgraded the storm threat to a Level 3 out of 5 on Friday afternoon. “Damaging winds with localized significant severe wind gusts in excess of 75 mph, along with a few tornadoes, should be the primary hazards,” the center said.
As of 8:15 a.m. Central time Friday, nearly 450,000 customers were still without power in Michigan, over 200,000 in Ohio and nearly 40,000 in Pennsylvania, according to PowerOutage.US.
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