Lake Michigan

Storms in Lake Michigan in 2004

184 events in 64 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Lake Michigan in 2004, 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.

Lake Michigan in 2004 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 Lake Michigan

The year

Events
184
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$205,000
Episodes
64

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
Marine Thunderstorm Wind16500$205,000
Marine Hail1800
Waterspout100

Every episode, month by month

March 2004

April 2004

May 2004

June 2004

July 2004

August 2004

September 2004

October 2004

More

Every year in Lake MichiganEvery state in 200420032005

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.