Storm History: Ionia County, Michigan
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ionia 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
- 309
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 22
- Damage
- $55 million
- Episodes
- 255
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 81 | 0 | 19 | $25 million |
| Hail | 77 | 0 | 3 | $1.9 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 58 | 0 | 0 | $615,000 |
| Winter Storm | 29 | 0 | 0 | $125,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 9 | 0 | 0 | $210,000 |
| High Wind | 8 | 0 | 0 | $13 million |
| Ice Storm | 7 | 0 | 0 | $5.3 million |
| Winter Weather | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 6 | 0 | 0 | $8.8 million |
| Blizzard | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lake-Effect Snow | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Sleet | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- High Wind, March 8, 2017
- Tornado, August 24, 2023
- Flood, April 17, 2013
- Tornado, July 6, 1994
- Ice Storm, February 5, 2019
- Tornado, April 26, 2011
- Tornado, June 22, 2015
- High Wind, February 24, 2019
- Flood, May 21, 2004
- Tornado, August 20, 2016
- Hail, April 4, 2023
- Flood, February 6, 2019
- Tornado, July 6, 2014
- Tornado, June 26, 2021
- Hail, May 31, 1998
- Ice Storm, April 3, 2003
- Tornado, April 21, 1967
- Tornado, November 27, 1989
- Hail, July 15, 1995
- Flash Flood, May 18, 2000
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 21, 1967
- Tornado, March 20, 1976
- Tornado, September 14, 1990
- Tornado, March 27, 1991
- Tornado, June 11, 1968
- Tornado, May 25, 1973
- Tornado, May 20, 1975
- Tornado, May 21, 1975
- Tornado, August 19, 1978
- Tornado, July 21, 1983
- Tornado, July 15, 1986
- Tornado, August 14, 1988
- Tornado, November 27, 1989
- Tornado, July 7, 1991
- Tornado, May 21, 2001
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, June 10, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 18, 2026
- Tornado, April 14, 2026
- Hail, April 13, 2026
- Winter Storm, November 29, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 16, 2025
- Tornado, May 15, 2025
- Tornado, March 30, 2025
- Hail, August 27, 2024
- Hail, June 20, 2024
- Hail, April 23, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2024
- Tornado, August 24, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 12, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2023
- Hail, April 4, 2023
- Ice Storm, February 22, 2023
- Blizzard, December 22, 2022
- Winter Storm, November 17, 2022
- Hail, September 21, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2022
- Hail, May 10, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 10, 2021
- Tornado, June 26, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 11, 2021
- Hail, August 28, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 2, 2020
- Flood, May 18, 2020
- Tornado, September 11, 2019
- Hail, August 29, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2019
- Flood, July 19, 2019
- Tornado, May 19, 2019
- High Wind, February 24, 2019
- Flood, February 6, 2019
- Ice Storm, February 5, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2019
- Winter Storm, April 14, 2018
- Tornado, April 10, 2017
- High Wind, March 8, 2017
- Heavy Snow, December 11, 2016
- Tornado, August 20, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 17, 2016
- Hail, July 8, 2016
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2016
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2016
- Sleet, December 29, 2015
- Hail, August 2, 2015
- Tornado, July 13, 2015
- Tornado, June 22, 2015
- Hail, April 9, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2015
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 17, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 25, 2014
- Tornado, July 6, 2014
- Hail, June 17, 2014
- Heavy Snow, January 4, 2014
- Ice Storm, December 21, 2013
- High Wind, November 17, 2013
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- Hail, May 20, 2013
- Flood, April 17, 2013
- Strong Wind, April 16, 2012
- Heavy Snow, February 23, 2012
- Hail, September 29, 2011
- Tornado, April 26, 2011
- Winter Storm, March 22, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 26, 2010
- Hail, September 21, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 9, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 24, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 3, 2009
- Tornado, June 19, 2009
- High Wind, December 28, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2008
- Winter Storm, November 30, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 2, 2008
- Tornado, June 8, 2008
- Hail, June 6, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 17, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 6, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 23, 2007
- Heavy Snow, December 15, 2007
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2007
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Hail, September 25, 2007
- Hail, August 22, 2007
- Hail, June 2, 2007
- Blizzard, February 2, 2007
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2007
- Ice Storm, December 1, 2006
- Tornado, September 23, 2006
- Hail, September 6, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 2, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 30, 2006
- Hail, July 17, 2006
- Hail, July 9, 2006
- Hail, May 30, 2006
- Ice Storm, February 16, 2006
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2006
- Heavy Snow, December 8, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 2005
- Hail, June 30, 2005
- Hail, June 14, 2005
- Hail, June 8, 2005
- Hail, June 5, 2005
- Heavy Snow, February 27, 2005
- Heavy Snow, January 21, 2005
- Winter Storm, November 24, 2004
- High Wind, October 30, 2004
- Tornado, August 25, 2004
- Hail, July 21, 2004
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, July 6, 2004
- Hail, June 14, 2004
- Flood, May 21, 2004
- Hail, May 21, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 26, 2003
- Tornado, July 20, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 2003
- Tornado, June 8, 2003
- Hail, May 10, 2003
- Ice Storm, April 3, 2003
- Hail, March 20, 2003
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2003
- Tornado, August 1, 2002
- Tornado, July 27, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2002
- High Wind, March 9, 2002
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2002
- Winter Storm, January 30, 2002
- Flash Flood, October 24, 2001
- Hail, September 7, 2001
- Hail, July 29, 2001
- Tornado, May 21, 2001
- Flood, February 24, 2001
- Flash Flood, February 9, 2001
- Heavy Snow, December 16, 2000
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2000
- Winter Storm, December 11, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 22, 2000
- Hail, July 28, 2000
- Hail, June 14, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 1, 2000
- Flash Flood, May 18, 2000
- Hail, May 12, 2000
- Winter Storm, April 7, 2000
- Hail, July 28, 1999
- Hail, July 24, 1999
- Hail, June 28, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 23, 1999
- Hail, May 17, 1999
- Winter Weather, March 8, 1999
- Winter Weather, March 4, 1999
- Lake-Effect Snow, February 12, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 1999
- Winter Weather, February 5, 1999
- Dense Fog, January 20, 1999
- Winter Weather, January 4, 1999
- Heavy Snow, January 3, 1999
- Blizzard, January 2, 1999
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 21, 1998
- Flash Flood, July 21, 1998
- Tornado, June 24, 1998
- Hail, May 31, 1998
- Hail, May 29, 1998
- Heavy Snow, March 13, 1998
- Blizzard, March 9, 1998
- Winter Storm, January 22, 1998
- Winter Weather, January 21, 1998
- Winter Storm, January 7, 1998
- Winter Weather, January 4, 1998
- Winter Storm, December 10, 1997
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 11, 1997
- Heavy Snow, October 26, 1997
- High Wind, September 29, 1997
- Hail, July 14, 1997
- Hail, July 8, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 1997
- High Wind, April 6, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 5, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 5, 1997
- Ice Storm, March 14, 1997
- Flash Flood, February 21, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 1996
- Hail, July 15, 1995
- Hail, July 20, 1994
- Tornado, July 6, 1994
- Hail, August 27, 1993
- Hail, August 23, 1993
- Tornado, June 17, 1992
- Tornado, July 7, 1991
- Hail, July 6, 1991
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 27, 1991
- Tornado, March 27, 1991
- Tornado, September 14, 1990
- Tornado, November 27, 1989
- Hail, June 26, 1989
- Tornado, May 31, 1989
- Tornado, May 25, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 19, 1988
- Tornado, September 3, 1988
- Hail, August 18, 1988
- Tornado, August 17, 1988
- Tornado, August 14, 1988
- Hail, July 10, 1988
- Tornado, July 20, 1987
- Tornado, July 9, 1987
- Hail, May 30, 1987
- Tornado, May 14, 1987
- Tornado, September 26, 1986
- Tornado, July 15, 1986
- Tornado, May 17, 1986
- Hail, September 8, 1985
- Hail, June 9, 1985
- Hail, July 28, 1983
- Tornado, July 21, 1983
- Tornado, June 7, 1980
- Tornado, April 8, 1980
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 10, 1979
- Tornado, August 9, 1979
- Hail, June 10, 1979
- Tornado, August 19, 1978
- Tornado, March 20, 1976
- Tornado, May 21, 1975
- Tornado, May 20, 1975
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 10, 1975
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 14, 1974
- Tornado, May 27, 1973
- Tornado, May 25, 1973
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 5, 1971
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 20, 1971
- Hail, June 14, 1970
- Hail, June 29, 1969
- Tornado, June 11, 1968
- Tornado, April 21, 1967
Earlier years, state by state:
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Tornadoes in Ionia CountyEvery warning in Ionia 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.