Michigan

Storm History: Genesee County, Michigan

476 episodes, 914 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Genesee 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
914
Deaths
123
Injuries
962
Damage
$166 million
Episodes
476

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
Hail34612$34 million
Tornado218120920$81 million
Thunderstorm Wind12300$4.1 million
Flash Flood6202$7.7 million
Heavy Snow3300$535,000
High Wind2500$32 million
Flood2200$235,000
Winter Storm2020$1.0 million
Heat12023
Ice Storm1000$3.1 million
Cold/Wind Chill9011$25,000
Lightning601$113,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Blizzard501$1.1 million
Winter Weather502
Strong Wind400$42,000
Excessive Heat300
Drought200
Frost/Freeze200$1.3 million
Lakeshore Flood100$350,000

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 Genesee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Genesee CountyEvery warning in Genesee 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.