Lake Superior

Storms in Lake Superior in 2016

99 events in 29 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Lake Superior in 2016, 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 Superior in 2016 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
99
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
None recorded
Episodes
29

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 Wind5800
Marine High Wind3100
Marine Hail700
Waterspout300

Every episode, month by month

February 2016

March 2016

May 2016

June 2016

July 2016

August 2016

September 2016

October 2016

November 2016

December 2016

More

Every year in Lake SuperiorEvery state in 201620152017

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.