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Tornado Warnings in Michigan, 1997

30 tornado warnings in 1997. 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
30
Busiest month
July18 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 2, 199718 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 30, 7:34 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRCass46 min
Apr 30, 8:12 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRKalamazoo48 min
Jun 12, 3:02 PM EDTTornado WarningGRREaton, Ingham63 min
Jun 21, 4:47 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXGenesee43 min
Jun 21, 5:31 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXLapeer44 min
Jun 21, 5:48 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXGenesee27 min
Jul 2, 2:13 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXEmmet47 min
Jul 2, 2:53 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXCrawford42 min
Jul 2, 3:03 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRGratiot47 min
Jul 2, 3:05 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXSaginaw40 min
Jul 2, 3:30 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXOscoda40 min
Jul 2, 3:46 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXSaginaw29 min
Jul 2, 4:01 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXGenesee, Shiawassee44 min
Jul 2, 4:15 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXSaginaw30 min
Jul 2, 4:45 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXArenac35 min
Jul 2, 4:46 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXGenesee29 min
Jul 2, 4:55 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXLivingston35 min
Jul 2, 5:01 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXLapeer44 min
Jul 2, 5:35 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXLivingston, Washtenaw35 min
Jul 2, 5:40 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXOakland30 min
Jul 2, 5:48 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXWayne42 min
Jul 2, 6:20 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXMacomb, Saint Clair25 min
Jul 2, 6:29 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXWayne31 min
Jul 2, 7:01 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXWayne29 min
Aug 15, 11:35 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTIron30 min
Aug 16, 12:08 AM EDTTornado WarningMQTDickinson32 min
Aug 16, 7:49 AM EDTTornado WarningDTXWashtenaw61 min
Aug 16, 8:15 AM EDTTornado WarningDTXWayne65 min
Sep 19, 12:39 PM EDTTornado WarningGRROttawa31 min
Sep 19, 1:07 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRKent, Ottawa63 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 2, 199718tornado warnings
  2. August 16, 19974tornado warnings
  3. June 21, 19973tornado warnings
  4. September 19, 19972tornado warnings
  5. April 30, 19971tornado warnings
  6. May 1, 19971tornado warnings
  7. June 12, 19971tornado warnings

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19961998

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.