Michigan

Storm History: Gladwin County, Michigan

178 episodes, 208 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Gladwin 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
208
Deaths
1
Injuries
6
Damage
$19 million
Episodes
178

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.

Open the live radar over Gladwin County

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
Hail5900$212,000
Thunderstorm Wind3400$161,000
Tornado3300$425,000
Winter Storm2600$15,000
Heavy Snow1800
Flash Flood1200$18 million
Flood700$162,000
Blizzard400
Ice Storm400$75,000
High Wind300$35,000
Strong Wind300$13,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Lightning116
Heat100
Excessive 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 Gladwin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Gladwin CountyEvery warning in Gladwin 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.