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Tornado Warnings in Michigan, 2024

46 tornado warnings in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
46
Busiest month
May14 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 7, 202413 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
Feb 27, 10:41 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXBerrien21 min
Feb 27, 10:56 PM ESTTornado WarningGRRVan Buren49 min
Feb 27, 11:57 PM ESTTornado WarningGRRKalamazoo16 min
Feb 28, 12:01 AM ESTTornado WarningGRRCalhoun59 min
Feb 28, 12:46 AM ESTTornado Warning Tornado observedGRRIngham, Jackson44 min
Feb 28, 1:13 AM ESTTornado WarningDTXGenesee19 min
Apr 17, 1:40 PM EDTTornado WarningGRREaton, Ingham50 min
Apr 23, 9:33 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRAllegan, Barry, Kent15 min
May 7, 4:29 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXBerrien46 min
May 7, 4:59 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXBerrien, Cass46 min
May 7, 5:14 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRVan Buren31 min
May 7, 5:33 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXSaint Joseph32 min
May 7, 5:38 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRKalamazoo, Van Buren50 min
May 7, 5:57 PM EDTTornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedConsiderable damage threatIWXBranch, Saint Joseph33 min
May 7, 6:01 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXBranch, Hillsdale44 min
May 7, 6:05 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGRRKalamazoo39 min
May 7, 6:13 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGRRCalhoun62 min
May 7, 6:15 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXBranch, Hillsdale45 min
May 7, 6:55 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXHillsdale17 min
May 7, 7:20 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGRRKalamazoo26 min
May 7, 7:35 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGRRCalhoun25 min
May 20, 7:03 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRMecosta42 min
Jun 16, 10:00 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGRRAllegan, Kalamazoo, Van Buren14 min
Jun 20, 3:06 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRBarry, Clinton, Eaton, Ionia39 min
Jun 20, 3:57 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRIonia, Kent15 min
Jun 22, 3:48 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXGladwin42 min
Jun 22, 4:22 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXArenac, Gladwin, Ogemaw38 min
Jun 22, 6:41 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXHuron21 min
Jul 5, 4:33 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXHuron29 min
Jul 5, 5:07 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRClare38 min
Jul 15, 7:50 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTDelta14 min
Jul 15, 11:10 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXBerrien50 min
Jul 15, 11:35 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXBerrien, Cass55 min
Jul 29, 8:02 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRBarry, Eaton28 min
Aug 6, 7:38 AM EDTTornado WarningGRRVan Buren52 min
Aug 6, 7:59 AM EDTTornado WarningIWXCass, Saint Joseph31 min
Aug 6, 8:10 AM EDTTornado WarningGRRKalamazoo23 min
Aug 6, 8:19 AM EDTTornado WarningIWXBranch, Cass, Saint Joseph41 min
Aug 6, 9:44 AM EDTTornado WarningIWXBranch, Hillsdale31 min
Aug 27, 3:45 PM EDTTornado WarningDTXBay, Midland10 min
Sep 24, 5:28 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXBranch32 min
Sep 24, 5:53 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXCass37 min
Sep 24, 5:55 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXBranch16 min
Sep 24, 6:39 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXHillsdale51 min
Sep 24, 6:42 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXCass33 min
Nov 10, 5:50 PM ESTTornado WarningGRRGratiot25 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. May 7, 202413tornado warnings
  2. February 28, 20246tornado warnings
  3. August 6, 20245tornado warnings
  4. September 24, 20245tornado warnings
  5. June 22, 20243tornado warnings
  6. June 20, 20242tornado warnings
  7. July 5, 20242tornado warnings
  8. July 16, 20242tornado warnings
  9. April 17, 20241tornado warnings
  10. April 24, 20241tornado warnings
  11. May 20, 20241tornado warnings
  12. June 17, 20241tornado 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.