Michigan

Storm History: Barry County, Michigan

277 episodes, 358 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Barry 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
358
Deaths
0
Injuries
8
Damage
$34 million
Episodes
277

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
Hail9001$2.9 million
Tornado8907$4.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind5700$688,000
Winter Storm3700$150,000
Flash Flood2200$1.7 million
Heavy Snow2000
High Wind900$13 million
Lake-Effect Snow800
Winter Weather800
Blizzard700
Flood500$6.2 million
Ice Storm400$5.2 million
Dense Fog100
Sleet100

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 Barry County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Barry CountyEvery warning in Barry 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.