Michigan

Storm History: Alpena County, Michigan

205 episodes, 263 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Alpena 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
263
Deaths
0
Injuries
4
Damage
$1.2 million
Episodes
205

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
Hail7701$332,000
Tornado4703$641,000
Winter Storm4700$6,000
Heavy Snow3000$100,000
Thunderstorm Wind2400$34,000
Flash Flood900$7,000
Blizzard700
High Wind700$77,000
Ice Storm600$4,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Flood100
Heat100
Winter Weather100
Excessive Heat100
Lakeshore Flood100$8,000

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Alpena County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Alpena CountyEvery warning in Alpena 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.