Michigan

Storms in Michigan in 2006

1,339 events in 214 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in 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.

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

Open the live radar over Michigan

The year

Events
1,339
Deaths
6
Injuries
342
Damage
$15 million
Episodes
214

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 Wind38402$732,000
Hail36023$6.3 million
Winter Storm12600
Heavy Snow9600$5,000
Heat620315
Lake-Effect Snow5000
Frost/Freeze4500
Lightning4315$719,000
Ice Storm3600$2.3 million
Winter Weather2601$26,000
Cold/Wind Chill1500
High Wind1412
Heavy Rain1300$35,000
Dense Fog1300
Flash Flood1200$3.2 million
Flood1100$258,000
Tornado1000$876,000
Blizzard700
Strong Wind700$42,000
Sleet300
Freezing Fog3110
Wildfire200$600,000
Rip Current114

Every episode, month by month

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November 2006

December 2006

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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.