Michigan

Storm History: Kalkaska County, Michigan

217 episodes, 238 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kalkaska 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
238
Deaths
1
Injuries
7
Damage
$2.5 million
Episodes
217

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
Winter Storm6000$25,000
Heavy Snow5300$250,000
Hail3001$580,000
Tornado2116$1.4 million
Lake-Effect Snow2000
Thunderstorm Wind1700$46,000
Blizzard1100$15,000
Flash Flood900$38,000
High Wind400$20,000
Ice Storm400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Heat100
Drought100
Winter Weather100
Wildfire100$125,000
Excessive Heat100

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 Kalkaska County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Kalkaska CountyEvery warning in Kalkaska 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.