Michigan

Storm History: Lenawee County, Michigan

440 episodes, 666 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lenawee 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
666
Deaths
10
Injuries
110
Damage
$63 million
Episodes
440

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
Hail24816$5.7 million
Tornado113991$27 million
Thunderstorm Wind10000$4.3 million
Flash Flood4901$710,000
Heavy Snow3300$450,000
Flood2600$315,000
High Wind2500$18 million
Heat1302
Cold/Wind Chill11010$1.0 million
Winter Storm1100
Ice Storm800$3.6 million
Lightning600$227,000
Blizzard500
Winter Weather500$15,000
Excessive Heat300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Drought200
Frost/Freeze200$1.3 million
Strong Wind200$7,000
Lakeshore Flood100$300,000

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 Lenawee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lenawee CountyEvery warning in Lenawee 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.