Michigan

Storm History: Oceana County, Michigan

240 episodes, 263 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Oceana 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
263
Deaths
0
Injuries
41
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
240

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
Hail63037$5.1 million
Winter Storm5000$100,000
Heavy Snow3400
Lake-Effect Snow2500
Tornado2304$645,000
Thunderstorm Wind2200$363,000
High Wind1100$11 million
Winter Weather1100
Flash Flood700$900,000
Blizzard700
Flood400$4.2 million
Ice Storm400$1.2 million
Cold/Wind Chill100$2.0 million
Sleet100

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 Oceana County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Oceana CountyEvery warning in Oceana 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.