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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — On April 3, 1956, an F5 tornado swept through Ottawa County, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Seventy years later, tracking tornadoes has vastly improved and so ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Fortunately, tornadoes are rare in Michigan. Rarer yet are the strong to devastating ones that exceed EF3. Of those that do happen, more than 90% are EF1 or EF0, the ...

Seven-year-old Eileen Herrmann’s entire world changed on April 3, 1956. With the 70th anniversary of the worst natural disaster in West Michigan just a day away, Herrmann’s memories of that spring day ...