Michigan

Storms in Michigan in 1980

178 events in 31 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Michigan in 1980, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Michigan in 1980 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Michigan

The year

Events
178
Deaths
5
Injuries
97
Damage
$53 million
Episodes
31

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind11300
Hail4600
Tornado19597$53 million

Every episode, month by month

April 1980

May 1980

June 1980

July 1980

August 1980

September 1980

October 1980

More

Every year in MichiganEvery state in 1980Tornadoes in Michigan in 198019791981

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.