Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Michigan
236 lake effect 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 lake effect snow warnings reaches back to 2005.
Lake Effect Snow Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Lake Effect Snow Warnings
- 236
- Busiest year
- 201339 lake effect snow warnings
- Average year
- 18over 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.
- Alger County57
- Ontonagon County45
- Houghton County39
- Leelanau County39
- Antrim County36
- Gogebic County32
- Schoolcraft County31
- Luce County30
- Keweenaw County28
- Marquette County25
- Grand Traverse County24
- Kalkaska County24
- Allegan County22
- Otsego County22
- Benzie County20
- Van Buren County19
- Ottawa County17
- Emmet County15
- Cass County14
- Crawford County13
- Baraga County13
- Manistee County12
- Cheboygan County10
- Mason County10
- Oceana County10
- Sanilac County9
- Kalamazoo County9
- Huron County8
- Kent County8
- Wexford County8
- Muskegon County8
- Delta County6
- Barry County5
- Saint Clair County5
- Missaukee County4
- Lake County3
- Newaygo County3
- Calhoun County3
- Saint Joseph County3
- Alpena County2
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.