Michigan

Storm History: Presque Isle County, Michigan

170 episodes, 196 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Presque Isle 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
196
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Damage
$4.6 million
Episodes
170

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.

Open the live radar over Presque Isle County

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
Winter Storm4700$3,000
Hail4401$3.9 million
Tornado3101$303,000
Heavy Snow2400$250,000
Thunderstorm Wind1100$31,000
Flash Flood901$103,000
Blizzard800
Ice Storm700$2,000
High Wind500$32,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Lake-Effect Snow200
Heat100
Strong Wind100
Winter Weather100$6,000
Lightning110
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 Presque Isle County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Presque Isle CountyEvery warning in Presque Isle 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.