I'd like to see that study on the Comins tornado, Jeremy. I hope you can find it.
The one promising Michigan chase day I can think of this season was June 5, and naturally, I'd made a commitment to play at Grand Rapids' annual Festival of the Arts. We were scheduled for 4:00; storms started firing around 1:30. Aaargh! Naturally, a storm blew in during the act preceding ours. Someone mentioned seeing a flying eagle over GR. That sounds about right. The hail fell, the wind threatened to blow the Outer Fringe tent away, the sound system got shut down, and our act got cancelled. And I freakin' KNEW this was going to happen, but I was locked into my commitment. With the best window of time wasted, I sprinted the four blocks to my car with my saxophone in my hands, hopped in, and headed east, but I was too late and got nothing except a lot of rain and high winds. Not even any decent storm structure.
I hope we get a crack at something decent yet this year. The one tornado I've witnessed in Michigan occurred in August, so while I'm not holding my breath, I'm not giving up hope, either.