Michigan

Storm History: Lake County, Michigan

171 episodes, 182 events since 1961

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.

Open the live radar over Lake 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
Winter Storm4100$425,000
Hail3300$1.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind2300$806,000
Heavy Snow1800$100,000
Tornado1500$475,000
Lake-Effect Snow1300
Winter Weather1000
Flash Flood800$3.2 million
High Wind700$5.2 million
Blizzard700
Ice Storm300$200,000
Flood300$5.0 million
Sleet100

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 Lake County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.