Tornado that hit Dexter near Ann Arbor, Michigan, was caught on camera.
A tornado ripped through a rural southeastern Michigan community Thursday, damaging or demolishing many homes, downing trees and power lines, sparking fires and flooding neighborhood roads.
A tornado destroyed several houses near Dexter and Pinckney in southeastern Michigan on Thursday afternoon, part of a slow-moving storm packing large hail, heavy rain and high winds, the Associated Press reported.
In Ann Arbor, 10 miles to the northwest, Mayor John Hieftje told CNN that the storm flooded streets, downed power lines were downed and areas of the city hit by hail. One house was struck by lightning, he said.
An area resident posted a video of the tornado approaching Dexter on YouTube (see below).
"There's trees flying around," one person can be heard saying on the video.
Bill Marx, head baker at Dexter Bakery, told Fox News he was closing up shop when he noticed the change in the weather and heard storm sirens.
"I stepped outside and saw the clouds turning around," Marx said. "It was coming toward us. After it went by, it really started raining and hailing."
There were no reports of injuries or fatalities.
However, there were also unconfirmed reports of tornados touching down in Monroe County's Ida Township and northwest Lapeer County, near Columbiaville, the AP cited National Weather Service meteorologist Amos Dodson as saying.
"We're getting absolutely hammered," Fire Capt. Jim Hemwall of Monroe County's Frenchtown Township reportedly said Thursday night. "We have funnel clouds spotted all around us."