Michigan

Storm History: Huron County, Michigan

308 episodes, 455 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Huron 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
455
Deaths
4
Injuries
18
Damage
$23 million
Episodes
308

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
Hail13900$2.0 million
Tornado8937$5.8 million
Thunderstorm Wind5200$1.1 million
Heavy Snow3800
High Wind3000$9.3 million
Winter Storm1600$2.5 million
Flash Flood1400$65,000
Flood1100$59,000
Heat1001
Ice Storm900$125,000
Blizzard900
Cold/Wind Chill8010$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Lakeshore Flood500$200,000
Lake-Effect Snow400
Winter Weather300
Excessive Heat300
Strong Wind300$17,000
Drought200
Rip Current210
Waterspout100
Lightning100$35,000
Frost/Freeze100$1.3 million

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 Huron County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Huron CountyEvery warning in Huron 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.