“A brief weak tornado tracked across portions of Marysville, Michigan in St. Clair County on the evening of September 2, 2026,” the NWS survey notes said. “Tree damage was sporadic along a narrow path between Gratiot Boulevard and Highway 29.”

One tornado was confirmed by the Detroit National Weather Service in the Marysville area. Damage surveys underway in other areas.

While tornadoes have struck communities across Southeast Michigan in recent years, the last one to impact the City of Detroit happened on July 2, 1997.

DETROIT - Tornado Warnings and Severe Thunderstorm Warnings are being issued across Southeast Michigan, and that storm pattern could continue for the next few hours. The National Weather Service in Detroit has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for most of the region through 7 p.m. tonight. The biggest risks are for high winds and heavy downpours.

The National Weather Service reported widespread property damage, downed trees and power lines, stranded vehicles and flooding across Southeast Michigan.

The National Weather Service will survey damage Friday in parts of Detroit and nearby communities after a powerful line of thunderstorms moved through Southeast Michigan Thursday afternoon, producing radar indications and damage consistent with a possible tornado.

Severe weather has rolled across most of Southeast Michigan twice throughout Tuesday.

As of 10:30 a.m., around 21,963 customers did not have power, according to We Energies' outage map. The overwhelming majority of those outages are clustered in Milwaukee, Washington and Waukesha counties.