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Winter Storm Watches in Michigan, 2017

16 winter storm watches in 2017. 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
16
Busiest month
December10 winter storm watches
Busiest day
April 4, 20172 winter storm watches

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
Jan 29, 4:09 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchIWXCass313 days
Apr 4, 3:58 PM EDTWinter Storm WatchGRRClare, Ionia, Isabella, Kent, Lake, Mecosta and 3 more24 hr
Apr 4, 4:05 PM EDTWinter Storm WatchAPXAlcona, Alpena, Arenac, Cheboygan, Crawford, Gladwin and 10 more24 hr
Apr 5, 9:42 AM EDTWinter Storm WatchDTXBay, Huron, Midland, Saginaw, Shiawassee, Tuscola251 days
Oct 26, 4:21 PM EDTWinter Storm WatchMQTGogebic, Ontonagon12 hr
Nov 10, 3:28 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchMQTLuce, Schoolcraft11 hr
Dec 3, 3:34 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchMQTHoughton, Keweenaw13 hr
Dec 4, 3:21 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchAPXCheboygan, Emmet13 hr
Dec 10, 4:13 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchMQTAlger, Marquette24 hr
Dec 11, 3:41 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchIWXCass, Saint Joseph9 hr
Dec 12, 3:48 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchDTXGenesee, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Midland and 7 more12 hr
Dec 23, 3:30 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchAPXAntrim, Crawford, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Otsego22 hr
Dec 23, 3:51 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchMQTAlger, Luce20 hr
Dec 27, 3:03 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchMQTSchoolcraft12 hr
Dec 27, 3:37 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchAPX12 hr
Dec 29, 3:53 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchIWXCass12 hr

By county

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

14 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.