Michigan

Storm History: Jackson County, Michigan

319 episodes, 394 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jackson 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
394
Deaths
1
Injuries
17
Damage
$28 million
Episodes
319

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
Hail12000$1.1 million
Tornado90115$4.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind8200$837,000
Winter Storm2802$1.2 million
Heavy Snow1900
Flash Flood1300$860,000
High Wind1100$13 million
Winter Weather900
Flood800$4.6 million
Ice Storm400$2.0 million
Blizzard400$100,000
Lake-Effect Snow200
Strong Wind200$17,000
Dense Fog100
Sleet100

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 Jackson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jackson CountyEvery warning in Jackson 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.