At least 2 killed, dozens injured after tornado tears through northern Michigan town

Two people were killed by the storm, according to Michigan State Police.The tornado had maximum winds of 140 mph has been rated an EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, the local National Weather Service office tweeted on Saturday.It is unclear how many people are missing.Vic Ouellette, a city councilman in Gaylord, said his wife, Connie, was among dozens injured.When the couple took shelter in the basement of the family home where Vic was born, he was knocked in the head, and his wife's vertebrae was cracked by debris flying through the air."I watched her literally get slammed with debris and particles from the flooring," Vic said. As the weather system moved across the Midwest, the storm turned into what's called a supercell thunderstorm, a type of storm that can produce conditions for damage, including high winds and the kind of tornado that ripped through Gaylord.Jim Keysor, a National Weather Service meteorologist based in Gaylord, said extreme winds are uncommon in the area because the Great Lakes suck energy out of storms, especially early in spring when the lakes are very cold."Many kids and young adults would have never experienced any direct severe weather if they had lived in Gaylord their entire lives," he said.Posen, a small village in northern Michigan, received baseball-sized hail during the storm, according to NWS.