Michigan

Storms in Michigan in 2003

1,022 events in 197 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Michigan in 2003, 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 2003 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
1,022
Deaths
7
Injuries
18
Damage
$211 million
Episodes
197

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 Wind35905$1.2 million
Hail26713$2.2 million
Heavy Snow16800
Winter Storm8400
High Wind3800$21 million
Ice Storm3012$166 million
Cold/Wind Chill1920
Lightning1502$293,000
Tornado1402$4.0 million
Flash Flood1204$41,000
Flood700$16 million
Blizzard400$230,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill330
Strong Wind100$1,000
Wildfire100$20,000

Every episode, month by month

January 2003

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March 2003

April 2003

May 2003

June 2003

July 2003

August 2003

September 2003

November 2003

December 2003

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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.