Thunderstorm Wind, Allegan
- When
- August 21, 2:15 PM CST
- Where
- Allegan County
- Coordinates
- 42.530, -85.950
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 21, 1983
11 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $250
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 12
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.
Event by event
11 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Allegan
- When
- August 21, 2:50 PM CST
- Where
- Allegan County
- Coordinates
- 42.570, -85.930
Tornado, Barry
- When
- August 21, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Barry County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.6 mi
- Path width
- 13 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 43.620, -85.530
Thunderstorm Wind, Kent
- When
- August 21, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Kent County
- Coordinates
- 43.000, -85.620
Thunderstorm Wind, Barry
- When
- August 21, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Barry County
- Coordinates
- 42.570, -85.350
Thunderstorm Wind, Montcalm
- When
- August 21, 3:50 PM CST
- Where
- Montcalm County
- Coordinates
- 43.300, -85.220
Thunderstorm Wind, Kalamazoo
- When
- August 21, 4:10 PM CST
- Where
- Kalamazoo County
- Coordinates
- 42.230, -85.600
Thunderstorm Wind, Calhoun
- When
- August 21, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Calhoun County
- Coordinates
- 42.320, -85.180
Thunderstorm Wind, Calhoun
- When
- August 21, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Calhoun County
- Coordinates
- 42.250, -84.750
Thunderstorm Wind, Muskegon
- When
- August 21, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Muskegon County
- Coordinates
- 43.420, -86.370
Thunderstorm Wind, Muskegon
- When
- August 21, 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Muskegon County
- Coordinates
- 43.120, -86.150
Thunderstorm Wind, Luce
- When
- August 21, 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Luce County
- Coordinates
- 46.350, -85.750
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Utah, August 21, 1983
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 21, 1983
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 21, 1983
- Hail in Nebraska, August 21, 1983
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 21, 1983
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wyoming, August 21, 1983
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 21, 1983
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 21, 1983
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 21, 1983
- Tornado in Oklahoma, August 21, 1983
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, August 21, 1983
- Tornado in Nevada, August 21, 1983
More
Every storm in Michigan in 1983Every state in 1983This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Michigan, 1983
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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10041132, 10041133, 10041134, 10041135, 10041136, 10041137, 10041138, 10041139, 10041140, 10041141, 10041142, 10041143.