The National Weather Service in Grand Rapids has confirmed a total of three tornadoes in Southwest and Mid-Michigan.

Michigan usually averages 13 to 15 tornadoes a year, state data shows. But we’ve already had 12 twisters this year - and we’re barely into spring. 30 photos show widespread storm damage across sister small towns in Southwest Michigan

Most tornadoes form from rotating thunderstorms known as supercells, which are highly organized storms. While climate change is causing earlier springs, there is no evidence yet of an increase in strong tornadoes in Michigan.

A tornado has been confirmed in Branch County, adding to those already reported from the April 14-15 severe weather outbreak.

The National Weather Service in Grand Rapids said it has survey teams investigating damage from the storms and will know more later Wednesday.

The spring, so far, has brought a mix of weather to Michigan: downpours, thundershowers, tornadoes, unseasonable heat — and now snow.

The calendar says April, but Michigan’s early severe weather is happening because the atmosphere has been acting more like late spring/early summer.

One of the strongest in a series of eight Michigan tornadoes this week reached EF-1 status when it tore through an Albee Township neighborhood, a National Weather Service report stated. In the immediate aftermath of the destruction — which sliced across the rural,