Michigan

Storm History: Cass County, Michigan

375 episodes, 477 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cass 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
477
Deaths
3
Injuries
41
Damage
$16 million
Episodes
375

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
Thunderstorm Wind12815$464,000
Hail9301$888,000
Tornado72128$9.6 million
Winter Storm5301
Lake-Effect Snow2900
Heavy Snow2700
Winter Weather1916
Flash Flood1300$500,000
High Wind1300
Flood1000$616,000
Ice Storm800$30,000
Blizzard500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Frost/Freeze100$4.0 million
Cold/Wind Chill100
Strong Wind100$1,000

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 Cass County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cass CountyEvery warning in Cass 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.