Michigan

Storm History: Gogebic County, Michigan

557 episodes, 677 events since 1965

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Gogebic 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
677
Deaths
3
Injuries
4
Damage
$48 million
Episodes
557

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 Storm12301$43,000
Winter Weather10101$42,000
Hail9921$800,000
Thunderstorm Wind5400$282,000
Lake-Effect Snow4800$15,000
Heavy Snow4400
Blizzard4300$5,000
Flash Flood3600$97,000
Cold/Wind Chill2300
Tornado2200$6.2 million
High Wind1600$1.1 million
Flood1410$39 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1400
Ice Storm1100$115,000
Frost/Freeze1000
Dense Fog400
Heavy Rain400
Heat300
Strong Wind200$12,000
Lakeshore Flood200$2,000
Excessive Heat200
Lightning101
Wildfire100$5,000

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 Gogebic County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Gogebic CountyEvery warning in Gogebic 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.