Tornado, Allegan
- When
- August 6, 6:45 PM EST to 6:50 PM EST
- Where
- Allegan County, Hamilton
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 3 yd
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 42.680, -86.000
Brief touchdown
Tornado in Michigan, August 6, 1998
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
- $2,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 44 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:47 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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
- Flash Flooding in Wisconsin, August 6 to 7, 1998
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, August 6, 1998
- Heat in Texas, August 6, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Michigan, August 6, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Arizona, August 6 to 31, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, August 6, 1998
- Tornado in Florida, August 6, 1998
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, August 6, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 6, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Mississippi, August 6, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 6, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, August 6, 1998
More
Every storm in Michigan in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Michigan, 1998Warnings in Michigan, August 1998
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: 5671662.