2017 Lake Michigan cyclone season (NoJO)

the 2017 Lake Michigan cyclone season was a well below average season that was also one of the costliest and most intense on record. the season started with Alice that formed on May 3, it was also the only non-major hurricane of the season.

Hurricane Alice
On May 3 the remnants of a derecho (it was mostly broken up severe thunderstorms by then) moved into western Lake Michigan just north of Chicago...it became Tropical Depression One less than 15 minutes later...later that night it became Alice with 45MPH winds, the storm continued to slowly strengthen on May 4 and early on the morning of May 5 became a hurricane with 75MPH winds (though according to the NHC the reason why was because the winds were peaking at 72.9MPH, which would still make it a tropical storm) the storm formed a small eye at 11:27AM on May 5, where it stayed as a 45 mile wide eye until 5:14PM when the eye dissipated, and the storm weakened to a Tropical Storm, the storm continued NE and weakened back into Tropical Depression Alice early on the morning of May 6, during the afternoon hours of May 6 the storm moved on the western coast of Michigan where a Tornado Watch was issued and the system spawned 11 tornadoes, including 2 violent and 6 killers...this is a wip