4WARN Weather – The National Weather Service has urgently issued a thunderstorm warning for Thursday afternoon in Oakland, Wayne, and Macomb counties, effective until 4:15 p.m.
Severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Macomb Township to near Sterling Heights to near Southfield, moving east at 10 mph.
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These thunderstorms are accompanied by 60 mph wind gusts and quarter-size hail, which can potentially cause damage to the area’s roofs, siding, and trees.
Other locations impacted by the severe thunderstorms include Warren, Troy, Southfield, Mount Clemens, Sterling Heights, Royal Oak, Clinton, Macomb Township, and Detroit Zoo around 3:20 p.m., and St. Clair Shores around 3:35 p.m., Roseville, Shelby Township, Utica, Lathrup Village, Bingham Farms, Harper Woods, Pleasant Ridge, Grosse Pointe Shores, Center Line, and Huntington Woods.
This includes the following highways: I-75 between mile markers 55 and 74, I-94 between mile markers 220 and 245, I-696 between mile markers 8 and 28, M-10 between mile markers 7 and 18, M-39 between mile markers 16 and 20, M-53 between mile markers 16 and 20, and M-59 between mile markers 43 and 49.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
Residents should move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building for their protection.
An excessive heat warning and air quality alerts have been issued across Metro Detroit. Temperatures rose above 90 degrees until Friday.
You can read the full forecast here.