Michigan

Storms in Michigan in 2014

1,214 events in 165 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Michigan in 2014, 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 2014 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
1,214
Deaths
5
Injuries
23
Damage
$1.9 billion
Episodes
165

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 Wind38000$5.3 million
Winter Weather18510
Hail17117$59 million
Winter Storm10502$15,000
Heavy Snow7400
Cold/Wind Chill6300
Lake-Effect Snow5531$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill4800
Heavy Rain4100
High Wind2200$1.5 million
Flash Flood1401$1.8 billion
Tornado1406$6.3 million
Flood900$7.3 million
Dense Fog800
Lightning806
Blizzard500$2,000
Strong Wind500$27,000
Lakeshore Flood500$7,000
Seiche200

Every episode, month by month

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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.