Heavy Snow Warnings in Michigan
42 heavy snow warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of heavy snow warnings reaches back to 2005.
Heavy Snow Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Heavy Snow Warnings
- 42
- Busiest year
- 200616 heavy snow warnings
- Average year
- 11over 4 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bay County7
- Dickinson County7
- Huron County7
- Sanilac County7
- Tuscola County7
- Saginaw County6
- Baraga County6
- Midland County6
- Schoolcraft County6
- Alpena County5
- Shiawassee County5
- Alger County5
- Clare County5
- Delta County5
- Iron County5
- Isabella County5
- Leelanau County5
- Marquette County5
- Mecosta County5
- Menominee County5
- Muskegon County5
- Newaygo County5
- Oscoda County5
- Genesee County4
- Lenawee County4
- Livingston County4
- Macomb County4
- Monroe County4
- Oakland County4
- Washtenaw County4
- Wayne County4
- Alcona County4
- Antrim County4
- Arenac County4
- Benzie County4
- Gladwin County4
- Gogebic County4
- Missaukee County4
- Montcalm County4
- Ogemaw County4
39 more counties
- Osceola County4
- Ottawa County4
- Roscommon County4
- Allegan County3
- Barry County3
- Eaton County3
- Ingham County3
- Kalamazoo County3
- Lapeer County3
- Saint Clair County3
- Van Buren County3
- Cheboygan County3
- Emmet County3
- Gratiot County3
- Houghton County3
- Iosco County3
- Kent County3
- Lake County3
- Mason County3
- Montmorency County3
- Oceana County3
- Ontonagon County3
- Otsego County3
- Wexford County3
- Manistee County3
- Calhoun County2
- Cass County2
- Hillsdale County2
- Jackson County2
- Clinton County2
- Crawford County2
- Grand Traverse County2
- Ionia County2
- Kalkaska County2
- Luce County2
- Presque Isle County2
- Branch County1
- Saint Joseph County1
- Keweenaw County1
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.