Michigan

Storm History: Newaygo County, Michigan

250 episodes, 292 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Newaygo 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
292
Deaths
4
Injuries
3
Damage
$28 million
Episodes
250

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
Hail7800$2.5 million
Tornado5023$660,000
Winter Storm4000$125,000
Thunderstorm Wind3720$699,000
Heavy Snow2200
Flash Flood1100$500,000
Lake-Effect Snow1100
Winter Weather1000
Flood900$12 million
High Wind800$10 million
Blizzard700
Ice Storm500$1.2 million
Strong Wind200$25,000
Sleet100
Excessive Heat100

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 Newaygo County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Newaygo CountyEvery warning in Newaygo 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.