Michigan

Storm History: Gratiot County, Michigan

199 episodes, 242 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Gratiot 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
242
Deaths
2
Injuries
8
Damage
$24 million
Episodes
199

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
Hail6600$1.6 million
Tornado5128$1.9 million
Thunderstorm Wind3400$558,000
Winter Storm2800$175,000
Heavy Snow1600
Flash Flood1400$515,000
Flood700$4.3 million
High Wind700$13 million
Winter Weather700
Ice Storm500$1.3 million
Blizzard400
Heavy Rain100
Sleet100
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 Gratiot County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Gratiot CountyEvery warning in Gratiot 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.