Line of storms prompts Severe Thunderstorm Warnings

2:40 p.m. update

A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for parts of Allegan, Barry, and Kent counties. This line of storms was causing 80 mph winds. The warning was set to expire at 3 p.m.

Meanwhile, all of Calhoun, Ionia, and Montcalm counties plus part of Branch County were put under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 4 p.m.

2:20 p.m. update

A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for all of St. Joseph County and part of Branch County. This warning is scheduled to end at 3 p.m.

2:17 p.m. update

A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for all of Barry, Kalamazoo, and Kent counties plus parts of Allegan, Calhoun, and Ottawa counties. The main threat of the storm is 70 mile per hour winds, pea-sized hail, and possible tornadoes.

The warning is set to expire at 3:30 p.m.

Original story (1:27 p.m.)

The National Weather Service set a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for nearly every county in the lower peninsula, except for Oceana County.

A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for Allegan, Berrien, Cass, and Van Buren counties. Those warnings are set to expire at 2 p.m. and 2:15 p.m.

If you are in the path of this storm, you are encouraged to seek shelter in your basement or interior room with no windows.

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