Michigan

Storm History: Saint Clair County, Michigan

410 episodes, 591 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Saint Clair 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
591
Deaths
7
Injuries
120
Damage
$98 million
Episodes
410

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
Hail19600$2.6 million
Thunderstorm Wind9000$3.9 million
Tornado855101$32 million
Heavy Snow4400
Flash Flood3700$2.5 million
High Wind3000$29 million
Flood2101$13 million
Winter Storm1610$1.0 million
Lakeshore Flood1200$250,000
Heat1107
Ice Storm1000$12 million
Cold/Wind Chill8110$25,000
Blizzard700$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Strong Wind400$46,000
Lake-Effect Snow400
Winter Weather200
Excessive Heat200
Drought200
Lightning201$1,000
Frost/Freeze200$1.3 million
Dense Fog100

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 Saint Clair County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Saint Clair CountyEvery warning in Saint Clair 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.