Michigan

Storm History: Isabella County, Michigan

208 episodes, 261 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Isabella 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
261
Deaths
0
Injuries
7
Damage
$115 million
Episodes
208

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
Hail8700$1.6 million
Tornado4107$1.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind3600$711,000
Winter Storm2900$390,000
Heavy Snow1500
Flash Flood1400$4.5 million
Flood800$95 million
High Wind800$10 million
Winter Weather800
Ice Storm700$1.5 million
Blizzard500
Funnel Cloud100
Sleet100
Excessive Heat100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Isabella County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Isabella CountyEvery warning in Isabella 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.