Michigan

Storm History: Marquette County, Michigan

735 episodes, 1,103 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Marquette 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
1,103
Deaths
18
Injuries
58
Damage
$104 million
Episodes
735

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
Hail28700$66 million
Winter Weather157320$202,000
Winter Storm136310$1.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind9500$195,000
Tornado6410$617,000
Blizzard51011$1.1 million
Flash Flood5000$3.1 million
Heavy Snow4912$150,000
Lake-Effect Snow4406
High Wind3100$1.3 million
Flood2900$23 million
Cold/Wind Chill1700
Ice Storm1200$40,000
Heavy Rain1214$60,000
Lakeshore Flood1120$813,000
Frost/Freeze900
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900
Wildfire804$6.1 million
Strong Wind720$34,000
Dense Fog600
Rip Current651
Lightning500$120,000
Excessive Heat400
Heat300
Seiche100

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 Marquette County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Marquette CountyEvery warning in Marquette 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.