Michigan

Storm History: Lapeer County, Michigan

360 episodes, 532 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lapeer 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
532
Deaths
4
Injuries
78
Damage
$64 million
Episodes
360

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
Hail18614$2.3 million
Tornado104061$28 million
Thunderstorm Wind6200$2.4 million
Heavy Snow3300
Flash Flood3000$7.9 million
High Wind2600$13 million
Winter Storm2110$1.0 million
Heat1201
Ice Storm900$4.1 million
Flood900$3.3 million
Cold/Wind Chill8010$25,000
Blizzard500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Lightning501$443,000
Winter Weather310
Excessive Heat300
Strong Wind300$17,000
Drought200
Dense Fog211
Frost/Freeze200$1.3 million
Lake-Effect Snow100
Lakeshore Flood100$250,000

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 Lapeer County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lapeer CountyEvery warning in Lapeer 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.