Tornadoes · United States · Michigan

2025 tornadoes in Michigan

32 tornadoes touched down in Michigan in 2025, 108 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

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The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

  1. EF065 to 85 mph

    Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

  2. EF186 to 110 mph

    Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

  3. EF2111 to 135 mph

    Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

  4. EF3136 to 165 mph

    Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

  5. EF4166 to 200 mph

    Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

  6. EF5over 200 mph

    Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

  7. Unrated

    The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Michigan in 2025

March 30 14 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 304:52 PM EDTEF1Cass2.6100$100,000
March 304:56 PM EDTEF1Cass2.0200$50,000
March 305:17 PM EDTEF0Saint Joseph3.6300$60,000
March 305:42 PM EDTEF0Kent4.2150
March 305:58 PM EDTEF1Kent1.7250
March 306:00 PM EDTEF0Kent2.4300
March 306:00 PM EDTEF0Kent5.0150
March 306:05 PM EDTEF0Newaygo2.850
March 306:07 PM EDTEF0Ionia2.2150
March 306:20 PM EDTEF0Ingham2.750
March 306:21 PM EDTEF0Ionia0.525
March 306:40 PM EDTEF1Ingham5.3150
March 306:51 PM EDTEF0Monroe0.5100
March 307:00 PM EDTEF1Shiawassee0.9100

April 2 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 28:49 PM EDTEF1Branch3.7125$50,000

May 15 12 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 1510:24 PM EDTEF0Ottawa3.550
May 1510:28 PM EDTEF1Allegan5.4175
May 1510:41 PM EDTEF1Allegan8.3200
May 1510:50 PM EDTEF1Barry6.8200
May 1510:51 PM EDTEF1Kent14.9100
May 1510:59 PM EDTEF0Kalamazoo10.1200
May 1511:11 PM EDTEF0Calhoun8.5200
May 1511:25 PM EDTEF1Eaton15.7250
May 1512:03 AM EDTEF1Livingston1.9230
May 1512:05 AM EDTEF0Saginaw1.6250$150,000
May 1512:11 AM EDTEF0Saginaw3.4160
May 1512:35 AM EDTEF0Genesee1.2100

June 18 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 185:02 PM EDTEF0Macomb2.4400

July 26 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 264:18 PM EDTEF1Sanilac1.7100

September 22 3 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
September 224:50 PM EDTUnratedGrand Traverse0.110
September 225:50 PM EDTEF0Antrim0.110
September 226:02 PM EDTEF1Antrim0.830

Crossed into Michigan

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Michigan. They are counted under the state they began in.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 27:46 PM CDTEF1Steuben, IN to MI10.8600$200,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Michigan since 1950Warnings in force in MichiganThe live radar over Michigan

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.