Lake Effect Snow Advisories in Michigan
508 lake effect snow advisories 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 lake effect snow advisories reaches back to 2005.
Lake Effect Snow Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Lake Effect Snow Advisories
- 508
- Busiest year
- 201384 lake effect snow advisories
- Average year
- 39over 13 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.
- Houghton County113
- Alger County106
- Keweenaw County96
- Ontonagon County91
- Schoolcraft County87
- Luce County78
- Gogebic County75
- Marquette County66
- Antrim County60
- Leelanau County60
- Benzie County56
- Otsego County51
- Baraga County49
- Grand Traverse County49
- Kalkaska County49
- Manistee County43
- Mason County41
- Oceana County41
- Allegan County39
- Ottawa County38
- Van Buren County38
- Emmet County37
- Muskegon County37
- Crawford County36
- Cass County31
- Kalamazoo County30
- Cheboygan County28
- Wexford County28
- Lake County27
- Delta County25
- Missaukee County21
- Newaygo County21
- Barry County19
- Saint Joseph County19
- Kent County18
- Presque Isle County17
- Huron County16
- Sanilac County11
- Roscommon County11
- Saint Clair County11
27 more counties
- Montmorency County9
- Osceola County8
- Montcalm County8
- Calhoun County8
- Ionia County8
- Eaton County7
- Jackson County7
- Mecosta County6
- Alpena County6
- Branch County6
- Clinton County6
- Ingham County6
- Clare County5
- Alcona County4
- Oscoda County4
- Hillsdale County2
- Iosco County2
- Isabella County2
- Livingston County1
- Oakland County1
- Tuscola County1
- Washtenaw County1
- Gratiot County1
- Menominee County1
- Ogemaw County1
- Bay County1
- Saginaw 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.