Storm History: Hillsdale County, Michigan
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hillsdale 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
- 427
- Deaths
- 9
- Injuries
- 138
- Damage
- $57 million
- Episodes
- 298
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 139 | 0 | 2 | $314,000 |
| Hail | 107 | 0 | 0 | $2.2 million |
| Tornado | 75 | 8 | 136 | $55 million |
| Winter Storm | 39 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 6 | 0 | 0 | $150,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lake-Effect Snow | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $2,000 |
| Flood | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, April 11, 1965
- Tornado, March 27, 1991
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Hail, April 12, 1996
- Tornado, March 12, 1976
- Tornado, October 24, 2001
- Tornado, April 23, 1968
- Tornado, July 4, 1969
- Tornado, September 25, 1984
- Flash Flood, June 17, 1996
- Tornado, August 25, 1998
- Tornado, September 24, 2024
- Tornado, April 9, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 10, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 18, 1997
- Hail, August 24, 1998
- Tornado, March 30, 2025
- Tornado, August 22, 1964
- Tornado, July 23, 1968
- Tornado, July 18, 1977
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 11, 1965
- Tornado, April 21, 1967
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Tornado, August 22, 1964
- Tornado, April 23, 1968
- Tornado, July 4, 1969
- Tornado, May 11, 1974
- Tornado, May 2, 1983
- Tornado, March 27, 1991
- Tornado, May 25, 1973
- Tornado, June 15, 1974
- Tornado, May 21, 1975
- Tornado, March 12, 1976
- Tornado, July 18, 1977
- Tornado, June 7, 1979
Every episode, newest first
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 11, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 24, 2026
- Winter Weather, December 19, 2025
- Winter Storm, November 29, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2025
- Tornado, March 30, 2025
- Tornado, September 24, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 27, 2024
- Tornado, August 6, 2024
- Tornado, May 7, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 3, 2023
- Ice Storm, February 22, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 25, 2023
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 23, 2022
- Blizzard, December 22, 2022
- Winter Storm, November 19, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 17, 2022
- High Wind, December 11, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 14, 2021
- Tornado, September 7, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 12, 2021
- Hail, June 20, 2021
- Hail, June 19, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2021
- Winter Weather, April 20, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 1, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2020
- Hail, April 7, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 25, 2020
- Winter Weather, December 31, 2019
- High Wind, November 27, 2019
- Winter Storm, November 11, 2019
- Hail, June 1, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 23, 2019
- High Wind, February 24, 2019
- Ice Storm, February 12, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 30, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2019
- Winter Weather, January 22, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 19, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 20, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 6, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 2, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 9, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 4, 2018
- Winter Storm, December 24, 2017
- Hail, July 7, 2017
- High Wind, March 8, 2017
- Tornado, February 28, 2017
- Heavy Snow, December 11, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 18, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2016
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2016
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2016
- Winter Weather, December 28, 2015
- Heavy Snow, November 21, 2015
- Hail, August 2, 2015
- Flood, July 18, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 2015
- Tornado, April 9, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 1, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 8, 2015
- Winter Storm, January 8, 2015
- High Wind, November 24, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 20, 2014
- Hail, September 5, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2014
- Hail, June 18, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 12, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 1, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 4, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2014
- Winter Storm, December 14, 2013
- Flash Flood, September 1, 2013
- Hail, June 25, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 26, 2013
- Winter Weather, February 22, 2013
- Heavy Snow, February 2, 2013
- Ice Storm, January 27, 2013
- Winter Weather, December 26, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2012
- Hail, June 21, 2012
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2012
- Heavy Snow, November 29, 2011
- Hail, September 3, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 11, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 2011
- Hail, June 10, 2011
- Hail, May 22, 2011
- Ice Storm, February 20, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 12, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2010
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 9, 2010
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Hail, June 8, 2009
- High Wind, February 11, 2009
- Heavy Snow, January 9, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2008
- Hail, June 15, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 21, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2008
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2007
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 24, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 23, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 27, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 15, 2007
- Hail, May 1, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 13, 2007
- Ice Storm, January 14, 2007
- Ice Storm, December 1, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 17, 2006
- Hail, June 21, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 30, 2006
- Hail, April 22, 2006
- Heavy Snow, December 8, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 6, 2005
- Hail, September 22, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 25, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2005
- Hail, June 30, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 9, 2005
- Hail, May 13, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 22, 2005
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2004
- Strong Wind, October 30, 2004
- Tornado, July 21, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 6, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 14, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 21, 2004
- Hail, May 6, 2004
- High Wind, March 5, 2004
- Heavy Snow, January 27, 2004
- High Wind, November 12, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 24, 2003
- Hail, August 27, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 25, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 16, 2003
- Hail, August 1, 2003
- Tornado, August 1, 2003
- Hail, July 20, 2003
- Tornado, July 10, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2003
- Hail, May 9, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 20, 2003
- Hail, April 4, 2003
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2003
- Heavy Snow, December 25, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 4, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2002
- Hail, June 14, 2002
- High Wind, March 9, 2002
- Ice Storm, January 31, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 24, 2001
- Tornado, October 24, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 24, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 9, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 7, 2001
- Lightning, July 21, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 2001
- Heavy Snow, December 11, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 26, 2000
- Hail, July 28, 2000
- Hail, May 9, 2000
- Hail, April 20, 2000
- Hail, July 29, 1999
- Hail, July 28, 1999
- Hail, July 23, 1999
- Hail, June 12, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 11, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 17, 1999
- Heavy Snow, January 2, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 10, 1998
- Tornado, August 25, 1998
- Hail, August 24, 1998
- Hail, July 21, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 1998
- Hail, June 25, 1998
- Hail, May 31, 1998
- Winter Storm, March 20, 1998
- Winter Storm, January 22, 1998
- Winter Storm, December 10, 1997
- Winter Weather, November 15, 1997
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 11, 1997
- High Wind, September 29, 1997
- Flash Flood, September 9, 1997
- Hail, August 16, 1997
- Hail, July 14, 1997
- Hail, July 8, 1997
- Hail, July 6, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 18, 1997
- High Wind, April 6, 1997
- Ice Storm, March 14, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 29, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 29, 1996
- Flash Flood, June 17, 1996
- Flash Flood, May 9, 1996
- Hail, April 12, 1996
- Winter Storm, March 19, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 15, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 12, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 1, 1995
- Hail, September 25, 1994
- Hail, June 28, 1994
- Tornado, June 13, 1994
- Hail, April 12, 1994
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 15, 1993
- Hail, October 8, 1992
- Tornado, July 13, 1992
- Hail, July 4, 1992
- Hail, April 23, 1992
- Tornado, July 7, 1991
- Hail, June 15, 1991
- Tornado, March 27, 1991
- Tornado, June 2, 1990
- Tornado, May 31, 1989
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Hillsdale CountyEvery warning in Hillsdale 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.