Michigan

Storm History: Emmet County, Michigan

229 episodes, 253 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Emmet 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
253
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Damage
$6.2 million
Episodes
229

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
Winter Storm6100
Heavy Snow4600$200,000
Hail3101$156,000
Thunderstorm Wind2400$136,000
Tornado2200$105,000
High Wind1400$219,000
Lake-Effect Snow1200
Blizzard1100$20,000
Ice Storm800$4,000
Flash Flood600$237,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Drought200
Flood200$10,000
Waterspout100
Heat100
Winter Weather100
Strong Wind100$5,000
Frost/Freeze100$5.0 million
Rip Current110
Excessive Heat100
Lakeshore Flood100$150,000
Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Emmet County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Emmet CountyEvery warning in Emmet 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.