Tornado Touched Down Thursday In Monroe County: NWS

FRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP, MI — A tornado touched down and left a path of debris Thursday evening in parts of Frenchtown Township in Monroe County, according to the National Weather Service.

Officials examined the damage and determined an EF1 tornado with maximum wind gusts reaching 90 miles per hour touched down at 6:09 p.m. in Frenchtown Township, which is roughly 40 miles south of Detroit, the weather service said.

The tornado began about a half-mile to the north-northwest of Detroit Beach at 6:09 p.m. It traveled nearly five miles before lifting southwest of Estral Beach at 6:18 p.m., the weather service said.

Powerful thunderstorms with wind gusts surpassing 60 miles per hour and golf ball size hail slammed southeastern Michigan on Thursday evening.

More than 1,700 DTE customers in the Detroit area, including hundreds in Monroe County, were without power Friday morning, according to the utility.