Storm History: Clare County, Michigan
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 55 | 0 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| Tornado | 40 | 0 | 2 | $3.0 million |
| Winter Storm | 30 | 0 | 0 | $500,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 24 | 0 | 0 | $187,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 9 | 0 | 1 | |
| Flash Flood | 8 | 0 | 0 | $270,000 |
| High Wind | 6 | 2 | 0 | $5.1 million |
| Blizzard | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 5 | 0 | 0 | $355,000 |
| Flood | 2 | 0 | 0 | $4.2 million |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Lake-Effect Snow | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sleet | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- High Wind, March 8, 2017
- Flood, April 17, 2013
- Tornado, July 5, 2024
- Flood, May 21, 2004
- Hail, September 7, 1998
- Winter Storm, December 11, 2010
- Hail, April 7, 2020
- Tornado, October 6, 1998
- Flash Flood, May 15, 2001
- Ice Storm, April 3, 2003
- Tornado, August 28, 2018
- Ice Storm, December 17, 2002
- Winter Storm, April 14, 2018
- Winter Storm, December 12, 2020
- Tornado, June 26, 2021
- Hail, July 13, 2003
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- High Wind, November 17, 2013
- Hail, August 27, 2024
- Tornado, August 1, 2002
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 episode, newest first
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 18, 2026
- Winter Storm, December 29, 2025
- Hail, August 27, 2024
- Tornado, July 5, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 22, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2024
- Hail, July 20, 2023
- Blizzard, December 22, 2022
- Hail, September 21, 2022
- Hail, September 7, 2021
- Tornado, June 26, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 11, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 12, 2020
- Hail, April 7, 2020
- Blizzard, February 24, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2019
- Tornado, August 28, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2018
- Winter Storm, April 14, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2017
- High Wind, March 8, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 6, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 2016
- Winter Storm, March 23, 2016
- Sleet, December 29, 2015
- Hail, August 2, 2015
- Hail, July 27, 2014
- High Wind, November 17, 2013
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- Hail, May 30, 2013
- Hail, May 20, 2013
- Flood, April 17, 2013
- Heavy Snow, February 7, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 20, 2012
- Hail, July 25, 2012
- Hail, July 3, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 28, 2012
- Heavy Snow, February 23, 2012
- Hail, June 8, 2011
- Winter Storm, March 22, 2011
- Winter Weather, March 4, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 11, 2010
- Hail, September 21, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 24, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2009
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2009
- High Wind, December 28, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 23, 2008
- Tornado, July 30, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2008
- Hail, June 14, 2008
- Hail, June 10, 2008
- Tornado, June 8, 2008
- Hail, June 6, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 6, 2008
- Winter Storm, January 13, 2008
- Heavy Snow, December 28, 2007
- Heavy Snow, December 15, 2007
- Heavy Snow, December 11, 2007
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2007
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Hail, July 9, 2007
- Hail, March 27, 2007
- Lake-Effect Snow, March 6, 2007
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2007
- Heavy Snow, February 24, 2007
- Ice Storm, December 1, 2006
- Hail, June 3, 2006
- Ice Storm, February 16, 2006
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 18, 2005
- Tornado, July 25, 2005
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2005
- Hail, June 8, 2005
- Heavy Snow, February 27, 2005
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2005
- Ice Storm, February 13, 2005
- High Wind, October 30, 2004
- Flood, May 21, 2004
- Hail, May 12, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2004
- Heavy Snow, January 14, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 17, 2003
- Hail, July 13, 2003
- Hail, July 6, 2003
- Tornado, June 8, 2003
- Ice Storm, April 3, 2003
- Ice Storm, December 17, 2002
- Tornado, August 1, 2002
- Hail, April 18, 2002
- High Wind, March 9, 2002
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2002
- Tornado, September 9, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 3, 2001
- Hail, June 15, 2001
- Tornado, May 21, 2001
- Flash Flood, May 15, 2001
- Flash Flood, February 9, 2001
- Winter Storm, February 7, 2001
- Winter Storm, December 11, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 1, 2000
- Hail, August 9, 2000
- Tornado, May 12, 2000
- Winter Storm, April 7, 2000
- Winter Storm, February 13, 2000
- Winter Storm, February 10, 2000
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2000
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2000
- Hail, July 28, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 1999
- Hail, May 17, 1999
- Winter Weather, March 8, 1999
- Winter Weather, March 4, 1999
- Winter Weather, March 2, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 1999
- Winter Weather, February 5, 1999
- Winter Weather, January 4, 1999
- Heavy Snow, January 3, 1999
- Blizzard, January 2, 1999
- Tornado, November 10, 1998
- Tornado, October 6, 1998
- Hail, September 7, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 1998
- Flash Flood, July 14, 1998
- Tornado, June 24, 1998
- Hail, June 15, 1998
- Hail, May 31, 1998
- Hail, May 6, 1998
- Heavy Snow, March 13, 1998
- Blizzard, March 9, 1998
- Winter Storm, January 22, 1998
- Heavy Snow, January 14, 1998
- Winter Storm, January 7, 1998
- Winter Weather, January 4, 1998
- Heavy Snow, October 26, 1997
- Hail, September 19, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 24, 1997
- Hail, May 8, 1997
- High Wind, April 6, 1997
- Flash Flood, February 21, 1997
- Lightning, July 30, 1996
- Hail, July 29, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 1996
- Hail, July 29, 1996
- Flash Flood, June 21, 1996
- Hail, May 19, 1996
- Hail, May 18, 1996
- Hail, May 18, 1996
- Hail, April 12, 1996
- Winter Storm, January 29, 1996
- Hail, August 13, 1995
- Tornado, July 13, 1995
- Tornado, July 17, 1994
- Tornado, June 17, 1994
- Hail, August 27, 1993
- Tornado, April 24, 1993
- Hail, October 8, 1992
- Tornado, June 17, 1992
- Tornado, March 27, 1991
- Tornado, August 16, 1988
- Tornado, August 3, 1988
- Hail, July 23, 1988
- Tornado, July 20, 1987
- Tornado, June 29, 1987
- Tornado, July 25, 1986
- Tornado, June 8, 1985
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 1984
- Tornado, July 10, 1984
- Tornado, July 21, 1983
- Hail, June 15, 1981
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 1979
- Tornado, June 17, 1978
- Tornado, July 4, 1977
- Hail, August 31, 1976
- Tornado, March 30, 1976
- Hail, August 30, 1966
- Hail, April 24, 1960
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.