Michigan

Storm History: Calhoun County, Michigan

354 episodes, 481 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Calhoun 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
481
Deaths
1
Injuries
31
Damage
$71 million
Episodes
354

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
Tornado133125$37 million
Thunderstorm Wind11900$3.5 million
Hail11200$3.1 million
Winter Storm3300$1.1 million
Flash Flood2406$1.6 million
Heavy Snow1800$1.2 million
High Wind900$15 million
Winter Weather800
Flood700$6.5 million
Lake-Effect Snow500
Blizzard500
Ice Storm400$1.5 million
Lightning100$11,000
Dense Fog100
Sleet100
Funnel Cloud100

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 Calhoun County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Calhoun CountyEvery warning in Calhoun 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.