Michigan

Storm History: Clare County, Michigan

182 episodes, 201 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clare 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
201
Deaths
2
Injuries
3
Damage
$15 million
Episodes
182

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.

Open the live radar over Clare County

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
Hail5500$1.1 million
Tornado4002$3.0 million
Winter Storm3000$500,000
Thunderstorm Wind2400$187,000
Heavy Snow1400
Winter Weather901
Flash Flood800$270,000
High Wind620$5.1 million
Blizzard500
Ice Storm500$355,000
Flood200$4.2 million
Lightning100$5,000
Lake-Effect Snow100
Sleet100

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 Clare County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Clare CountyEvery warning in Clare 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.