Lake Michigan

Storms in Lake Michigan in 2006

174 events in 73 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Lake Michigan in 2006, 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 2006 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

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The year

Events
174
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$510,000
Episodes
73

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 Wind12100$500,000
Marine Hail3100
Waterspout2100
Marine High Wind100$10,000

Every episode, month by month

March 2006

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May 2006

June 2006

July 2006

August 2006

September 2006

October 2006

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Every year in Lake MichiganEvery state in 200620052007

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.