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- Three tornadoes of April 3, 1956, sent more than 200 to hospitals and left an estimated 2000 homeless. The newspaper reported, “The rip-roaring storm wheeled up the Lake Michigan coastline, blasted inland at Holland, slammed into the Hudsonville, Standale, Allendale areas, swept a strip through northwest Grand Rapids and plowed north to Rockford.”
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The afternoon of Tuesday, April 3rd, 1956 was warm and humid. Strong south winds had brought summer-like temperatures and humidity, with record highs in the upper 70°s at Muskegon and Grand Rapids. Holland and Kalamazoo both reached 80 degrees. Dew points were in the 60°s even near Lake Michigan.
Apr 3, 2024 · April 3, 1956 was an unusually warm day with record highs in the upper 70s in Muskegon and Grand Rapids. Strong winds from the south brought these warm temperatures, along with high humidity.
- Steven Bohner
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The outbreak produced at least 55 tornadoes, including an F5 that devastated the Grand Rapids metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Michigan on April 3. It was one of three tornadoes to move across southwest Lower Michigan on that day.
Apr 2, 2016 · Those tornadoes on April 3, 1956 remain the worst tornado outbreak in West Michigan history. The relatively rare weather event for communities in the region left 17 people died, 350...
Mar 31, 2021 · GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — April 3, 1956 is a day many across West Michigan will never forget. Saturday marks 65 years since lives were lost, many were injured and towns were destroyed. Pete...
Mar 22, 2020 · April 3, 1956, was a warm and humid day across most of the Midwestern U.S., the Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley. Temperatures in the areas affected by the worst of the outbreak were well into the 70s°, approaching 80 ° with high dew points.
