Michigan

Storm History: Dickinson County, Michigan

384 episodes, 503 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dickinson 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
503
Deaths
7
Injuries
10
Damage
$9.3 million
Episodes
384

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
Hail11900$535,000
Winter Storm7712$60,000
Winter Weather5624$70,000
Tornado4200$7.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind4100$231,000
Blizzard3100$27,000
Flash Flood3000$794,000
Cold/Wind Chill1600
Heavy Snow1500
Flood1424$163,000
High Wind1120$108,000
Ice Storm1100$30,000
Frost/Freeze900
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900
Dense Fog500
Heavy Rain500
Lake-Effect Snow400
Heat300
Strong Wind200$2,000
Excessive Heat200
Lakeshore Flood100

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 Dickinson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dickinson CountyEvery warning in Dickinson 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.