Michigan

Storm History: Alger County, Michigan

582 episodes, 697 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Alger County, Michigan: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
697
Deaths
4
Injuries
5
Damage
$3.5 million
Episodes
582

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Winter Weather14100
Winter Storm12600$673,000
Hail10100$164,000
Lake-Effect Snow7100$4,000
Blizzard5900$23,000
Heavy Snow4700
Tornado2401$355,000
High Wind2400$1.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind1610$41,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1200
Ice Storm1100$5,000
Cold/Wind Chill900
Flash Flood901$98,000
Frost/Freeze800
Heat800
Flood700$1.0 million
Heavy Rain500$4,000
Dense Fog400
Lakeshore Flood300$70,000
Excessive Heat300
Lightning203$20,000
Rip Current230
Strong Wind200$3,000
Wildfire200$7,000
Seiche100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Alger County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Alger CountyEvery warning in Alger County since 1986Every county in Michigan

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.