Michigan

Storm History: Kalamazoo County, Michigan

385 episodes, 487 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kalamazoo 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
487
Deaths
6
Injuries
131
Damage
$259 million
Episodes
385

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.

Open the live radar over Kalamazoo County

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
Hail12800$129 million
Tornado1216129$86 million
Thunderstorm Wind9501$6.7 million
Winter Storm4500$50,000
Flash Flood2401$1.9 million
Heavy Snow2300
Lake-Effect Snow1400
High Wind900$18 million
Flood800$18 million
Blizzard700
Winter Weather700
Ice Storm300$325,000
Dense Fog100
Strong Wind100$15,000
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 Kalamazoo County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Kalamazoo CountyEvery warning in Kalamazoo 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.