Lake Michigan

Storms in Lake Michigan in 2012

157 events in 81 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Lake Michigan in 2012, 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 2012 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
157
Deaths
4
Injuries
3
Damage
$5,000
Episodes
81

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 Wind12200$5,000
Waterspout1700
Marine Hail900
Marine Strong Wind543$100
Marine High Wind400

Every episode, month by month

March 2012

May 2012

June 2012

July 2012

August 2012

September 2012

October 2012

November 2012

December 2012

More

Every year in Lake MichiganEvery state in 201220112013

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.