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Tornado Warnings in Michigan, 1988

29 tornado warnings in 1988. 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 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
29
Busiest month
August18 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 3, 19886 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
Apr 3, 4:20 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRHillsdale25 min
Apr 3, 4:36 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXLenawee24 min
Apr 3, 4:55 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXLenawee5 min
Apr 3, 4:55 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXLenawee25 min
Apr 3, 5:12 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXWashtenaw48 min
Apr 3, 6:32 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXOakland23 min
May 15, 7:32 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXLenawee43 min
Jul 25, 7:03 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRGratiot42 min
Jul 25, 8:26 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXLivingston, Washtenaw49 min
Jul 25, 8:29 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXGenesee31 min
Jul 25, 9:09 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXLivingston, Oakland51 min
Aug 3, 4:41 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXArenac34 min
Aug 4, 4:05 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXLivingston, Washtenaw25 min
Aug 5, 1:11 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXAlpena64 min
Aug 5, 3:21 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXGenesee39 min
Aug 5, 4:16 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXOakland29 min
Aug 5, 4:52 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXOakland38 min
Aug 5, 5:30 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXOakland45 min
Aug 12, 3:00 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXPresque Isle52 min
Aug 12, 3:18 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXAlpena57 min
Aug 12, 3:18 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXMontmorency34 min
Aug 14, 10:31 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRAllegan44 min
Aug 16, 8:10 AM EDTTornado WarningAPXGrand Traverse, Leelanau65 min
Aug 16, 9:09 AM EDTTornado WarningAPXWexford66 min
Aug 16, 10:35 AM EDTTornado WarningGRRClinton25 min
Aug 16, 11:20 AM EDTTornado WarningDTXOakland25 min
Aug 16, 12:07 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXAntrim68 min
Aug 16, 6:58 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTMarquette47 min
Aug 18, 2:42 AM EDTTornado WarningDTXWashtenaw33 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. April 3, 19886tornado warnings
  2. August 16, 19886tornado warnings
  3. August 5, 19885tornado warnings
  4. July 26, 19883tornado warnings
  5. August 12, 19883tornado warnings
  6. May 15, 19881tornado warnings
  7. July 25, 19881tornado warnings
  8. August 3, 19881tornado warnings
  9. August 4, 19881tornado warnings
  10. August 15, 19881tornado warnings
  11. August 18, 19881tornado 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.