 In Michigan , a tornado in Tuscola near Flint threw a one @-@ year @-@ old baby 40 feet ( 12 m ) away from its location along with the crib and was later found amongst a pile of rubble under a mattress . His parents told reporters that the mattress saved the toddler 's life and he suffered few to no injuries . According to the National Weather Service in Detroit , tornadoes this late in the year in Michigan are rare . The last significant October tornado event was on October 24 , 2001 , when three tornadoes hit southeastern Lower Michigan , out of a total of nine in the state that day . Including the 2001 tornadoes , only seven October tornadoes had been recorded in the NWS Detroit county warning area prior to the 2007 outbreak . By comparison , NWS Detroit had confirmed five tornadoes in its coverage area from this outbreak . It was also the largest October outbreak over western Kentucky and southern Indiana as 15 tornadoes were confirmed on October 18 . Previous to this outbreak , only 19 tornadoes had been recorded in that same region during the history of October prior to this event . The Owensboro tornado , which was rated an EF3 was also the strongest ever in that month over the same region since records were kept in 1950 although an unofficial F3 took place in Posey County , Indiana on October 16 , 1928 . 
