Michigan

Storm History: Delta County, Michigan

447 episodes, 575 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Delta 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
575
Deaths
5
Injuries
13
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
447

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
Hail11400$107,000
Winter Storm9026$126,000
Winter Weather7810
Thunderstorm Wind6302$709,000
Tornado4303$5.6 million
Blizzard3200$10,000
Flash Flood2800$6,000
Lake-Effect Snow2100
Heavy Snow1700
Flood1700$1.5 million
Cold/Wind Chill1310
High Wind1101$2.2 million
Ice Storm900$20,000
Frost/Freeze900
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900
Dense Fog500
Heavy Rain500
Lakeshore Flood200$100,000
Strong Wind200$1,000
Excessive Heat200
Funnel Cloud100
Rip Current110
Wildfire100$20,000
Lightning101$100,000
Heat100

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 Delta County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Delta CountyEvery warning in Delta 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.