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Tornado Warnings in Michigan, 1987

24 tornado warnings in 1987. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1987. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
24
Busiest month
July14 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 11, 19875 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 6:00 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXOakland30 min
Jun 21, 7:06 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXWayne39 min
Jun 29, 6:55 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXWashtenaw, Wayne35 min
Jun 29, 7:36 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXWayne24 min
Jun 29, 7:59 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXWayne31 min
Jul 9, 1:18 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRIonia27 min
Jul 11, 2:33 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTMarquette57 min
Jul 11, 2:46 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTHoughton, Keweenaw59 min
Jul 11, 3:32 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTMarquette28 min
Jul 11, 4:36 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTDelta, Menominee54 min
Jul 11, 6:40 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXChippewa30 min
Jul 12, 4:50 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXChippewa25 min
Jul 20, 2:18 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTDelta, Dickinson, Menominee57 min
Jul 20, 4:57 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXKalkaska, Missaukee, Wexford33 min
Jul 20, 4:57 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXGrand Traverse28 min
Jul 20, 5:16 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXOsceola29 min
Jul 20, 6:26 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXAlcona34 min
Jul 20, 8:48 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXLivingston, Oakland57 min
Jul 20, 9:11 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXMacomb64 min
Aug 9, 4:49 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXOakland, Wayne26 min
Aug 16, 7:06 AM EDTTornado WarningMQTMarquette69 min
Sep 17, 7:32 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXMacomb, Oakland28 min
Sep 17, 8:02 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXMacomb28 min
Sep 21, 1:47 PM EDTTornado WarningINDBerrien43 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. July 11, 19875tornado warnings
  2. July 20, 19875tornado warnings
  3. June 29, 19873tornado warnings
  4. June 21, 19872tornado warnings
  5. July 21, 19872tornado warnings
  6. July 9, 19871tornado warnings
  7. July 12, 19871tornado warnings
  8. August 9, 19871tornado warnings
  9. August 16, 19871tornado warnings
  10. September 17, 19871tornado warnings
  11. September 18, 19871tornado warnings
  12. September 21, 19871tornado warnings

Nearby

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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.