Four tornadoes were confirmed on August 14, 1988. Two where in the state of Michigan and the strongest tracked just over 26 miles through parts of Ingham and Livingston Counties. It developed in East Lansing and moved SE to near Dansville to north of Stockbridge and lifted near Unadilla. Thomas Grazulis in Significant Tornadoes notes this was not a continuous path but a skipping one. There were no recorded injuries but there was a fatality. Rex Bates died when a large oak tree fell on his camper north of Stockbridge. Per an article in the Detroit Free Press from August 16, 1988, Mr. Bates’ wife left the trailer to go into their home right before the tree fell on it.
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