Lake Effect Snow Watches in Michigan
112 lake effect snow watches 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Lake Effect Snow Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Lake Effect Snow Watches
- 112
- Busiest year
- 200718 lake effect snow watches
- Average year
- 9over 12 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 County26
- Houghton County19
- Keweenaw County19
- Luce County19
- Ontonagon County19
- Schoolcraft County17
- Gogebic County14
- Cass County13
- Marquette County13
- Allegan County11
- Van Buren County11
- Antrim County10
- Baraga County10
- Otsego County7
- Ottawa County7
- Emmet County6
- Kalkaska County6
- Leelanau County6
- Cheboygan County5
- Kalamazoo County5
- Mason County5
- Oceana County5
- Huron County5
- Muskegon County4
- Benzie County4
- Manistee County4
- Grand Traverse County4
- Saint Clair County4
- Sanilac County4
- Barry County3
- Crawford County3
- Kent County3
- Saint Joseph County3
- Lake County2
- Newaygo County2
- Calhoun County1
- Missaukee County1
- Wexford 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.