Storm History: Lake County, Michigan
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lake 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
- 182
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- $17 million
- Episodes
- 171
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Storm | 41 | 0 | 0 | $425,000 |
| Hail | 33 | 0 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 23 | 0 | 0 | $806,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 18 | 0 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Tornado | 15 | 0 | 0 | $475,000 |
| Lake-Effect Snow | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 8 | 0 | 0 | $3.2 million |
| High Wind | 7 | 0 | 0 | $5.2 million |
| Blizzard | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | $200,000 |
| Flood | 3 | 0 | 0 | $5.0 million |
| 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
- Flood, April 17, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2008
- Flood, May 21, 2004
- Hail, May 31, 1998
- Flood, July 19, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 3, 2012
- Winter Storm, December 11, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2019
- Tornado, July 25, 2005
- Ice Storm, April 3, 2003
- Tornado, August 28, 2018
- Flash Flood, February 9, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 30, 2001
- Heavy Snow, March 2, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 14, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2023
- Hail, August 27, 2024
- Hail, August 9, 2000
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, July 26, 1978
- Hail, August 15, 1961
- Hail, September 7, 2021
- Flash Flood, May 3, 2012
- Hail, June 17, 2014
- Hail, June 8, 2011
- Hail, May 10, 2003
- Hail, July 13, 2000
- Hail, August 9, 2000
- Hail, March 30, 1998
- Hail, May 18, 1996
- Hail, August 31, 1976
- Hail, April 18, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2008
- Hail, May 31, 1998
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, March 30, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2026
- Winter Storm, December 29, 2025
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2025
- Tornado, May 15, 2025
- Hail, April 18, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 21, 2025
- Hail, August 27, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2023
- Blizzard, December 22, 2022
- Winter Storm, November 17, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2022
- Hail, September 7, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 27, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 10, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 2, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2019
- Flood, July 19, 2019
- Blizzard, February 24, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 29, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2019
- Tornado, August 28, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2018
- Winter Storm, April 14, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2017
- High Wind, March 8, 2017
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 8, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2016
- Winter Storm, March 23, 2016
- Sleet, December 29, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 13, 2015
- Heavy Snow, January 8, 2015
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 17, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2014
- Hail, June 17, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2014
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2014
- High Wind, November 17, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2013
- Flood, April 17, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 20, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2012
- Flash Flood, May 3, 2012
- Heavy Snow, March 2, 2012
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2012
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 1, 2012
- Flash Flood, August 2, 2011
- Hail, June 8, 2011
- Hail, April 10, 2011
- Winter Storm, March 22, 2011
- Winter Weather, March 4, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 22, 2011
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 6, 2011
- Winter Weather, January 3, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 11, 2010
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 5, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 24, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2009
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2009
- High Wind, December 28, 2008
- Blizzard, December 20, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2008
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 17, 2008
- Hail, April 25, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 6, 2008
- Winter Storm, January 10, 2008
- Heavy Snow, December 28, 2007
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 20, 2007
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2007
- Heavy Snow, February 24, 2007
- Blizzard, February 2, 2007
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 6, 2006
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 4, 2006
- Ice Storm, December 1, 2006
- Ice Storm, February 16, 2006
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 13, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 18, 2005
- Tornado, July 25, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 2005
- Heavy Snow, February 27, 2005
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2005
- Heavy Snow, January 18, 2005
- Heavy Snow, January 4, 2005
- High Wind, October 30, 2004
- Hail, August 2, 2004
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Flood, May 21, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2004
- Heavy Snow, January 14, 2004
- Tornado, June 8, 2003
- Hail, May 10, 2003
- Ice Storm, April 3, 2003
- Heavy Snow, February 10, 2003
- Heavy Snow, December 1, 2002
- Hail, April 18, 2002
- High Wind, March 9, 2002
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2002
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2002
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 30, 2001
- Hail, August 9, 2001
- High Wind, June 18, 2001
- Hail, May 23, 2001
- Flash Flood, February 9, 2001
- Winter Storm, February 7, 2001
- Heavy Snow, December 18, 2000
- Winter Storm, December 11, 2000
- Hail, August 9, 2000
- Hail, July 13, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 1, 2000
- Hail, May 8, 2000
- Winter Storm, April 7, 2000
- Winter Storm, February 10, 2000
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2000
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2000
- Tornado, July 23, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 1999
- Winter Weather, March 8, 1999
- Winter Weather, March 4, 1999
- Winter Weather, March 2, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 1999
- Winter Weather, February 5, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 10, 1999
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 5, 1999
- Winter Weather, January 4, 1999
- Heavy Snow, January 3, 1999
- Blizzard, January 2, 1999
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 21, 1998
- Tornado, November 10, 1998
- Hail, September 7, 1998
- Flash Flood, August 6, 1998
- Hail, May 31, 1998
- Hail, May 29, 1998
- Hail, March 30, 1998
- Heavy Snow, March 13, 1998
- Blizzard, March 9, 1998
- Winter Storm, January 22, 1998
- Winter Storm, January 7, 1998
- Winter Weather, January 4, 1998
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 30, 1997
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 4, 1997
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 11, 1997
- Hail, June 30, 1997
- Hail, May 5, 1997
- High Wind, April 6, 1997
- Flash Flood, February 21, 1997
- Heavy Snow, November 10, 1996
- Hail, May 18, 1996
- Hail, May 18, 1996
- Winter Storm, January 29, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 12, 1995
- Tornado, June 17, 1992
- Tornado, September 14, 1990
- Tornado, August 17, 1988
- Tornado, June 8, 1985
- Tornado, August 15, 1978
- Hail, July 26, 1978
- Hail, August 31, 1976
- Hail, August 15, 1961
More
Tornadoes in Lake CountyEvery warning in Lake 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.