Michigan

Storm History: Midland County, Michigan

288 episodes, 420 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Midland 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
420
Deaths
0
Injuries
26
Damage
$355 million
Episodes
288

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
Hail14300$12 million
Tornado7001$1.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind47012$1.6 million
Heavy Snow2900$25,000
High Wind2400$8.7 million
Winter Storm1800$1.0 million
Flash Flood1700$327 million
Ice Storm1500$50,000
Heat1303
Flood1200$1.7 million
Cold/Wind Chill8010$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Blizzard500
Excessive Heat300
Winter Weather200
Drought200
Strong Wind200$7,000
Dense Fog100
Lightning100
Frost/Freeze100$1.3 million
Lakeshore Flood100$200,000

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 Midland County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Midland CountyEvery warning in Midland 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.