Michigan

Storms in Michigan in 2002

1,090 events in 170 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Michigan in 2002, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Michigan in 2002 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
1,090
Deaths
7
Injuries
47
Damage
$32 million
Episodes
170

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 Wind39605$761,000
Hail18017$1.1 million
Heavy Snow15000
Winter Storm14300
High Wind7303$1.3 million
Ice Storm4102$1.3 million
Lightning2401$55,000
Blizzard1900
Drought1700
Flood1300$19 million
Tornado1303$8.9 million
Flash Flood1000$465,000
Heat4225
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill330
Funnel Cloud200
Dense Fog211

Every episode, month by month

January 2002

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March 2002

April 2002

May 2002

June 2002

July 2002

August 2002

September 2002

October 2002

November 2002

December 2002

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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.