Power Outage in Petoskey, MI

A couple of trees were downed, one onto power lines, causing a localized power outage.

Trees were downed onto power lines, near the intersection of Pickerel Lake Road and Silver Creek Road.

Trees were downed onto power lines.

The airport in Pellston had a measured gust of 61 mph. Spotty tree damage and power outages were reported.

Multiple trees and power lines were downed.

Many trees and power lines were downed, from the east end of Little Traverse Bay, extending inland a few miles. One car was crushed by a falling tree. A woman at Petoskey State Park was briefly trapped inside a motorhome.

Numerous trees and power lines downed across Emmet County.

Numerous trees and power lines were downed. Several homes and cottages were damaged by falling trees near Crooked and Pickerel Lakes, and a small aluminum boat was tossed into a tree. At a dealership in Petoskey, trailers were rolled off of a parking lot and into a ditch.

Trees and power lines down.

A clipper low pressure system rapidly intensified to the northwest of Northern Michigan. Lake effect snow and very strong winds developed after a cold front passed on the morning of the 27th. Charlevoix and Pellston both measured wind gusts around 60 mph by midday. Some trees and power lines were downed as a result. One building in Boyne City was significantly damaged by a falling tree. Snowfall in the snowbelts was generally two inches or less. However, a narrow band of about four inches fell from Norwood to Grayling. The snow and gusty winds combined to produce near blizzard conditions at times.|Further north, snowfall amounts were even higher in Eastern Upper Michigan, with five to locally eight inches in western Chippewa County. However, winds were much less this far north, and the impact of the storm was less severe.

A powerful storm system in the upper Mississippi Valley weakened as it moved into the Great Lakes region. In northern Michigan, the most persistent snow fell during the daylight hours of the 19th. Most snowfall totals were in the 2 to 5 inch range. However, patches of heavier snow did occur. Six to seven inches of snow fell in central and northern Leelanau County, western Emmet County, and far western Mackinac County.

Strong southerly winds ushered warm air into Northern Michigan after sunset. Numerous wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph occurred during the night of the 18th. These winds downed a stray tree here or there, along with the occasional power line. More significant damage occurred at the Pellston Regional Airport, where a parked turboprop commercial aircraft was spun into nearby boarding docks, damaging the wings and tail section of the aircraft. At the same airport, a Cessna 150 was flipped by the strong winds, causing substantial damage.