National Weather Service United States Department of Commerce

With the 2 Macomb County tornadoes on August 19th, Southeast Michigan has now had 12 tornadoes for the year.  This places 2010 tied for 6th place for the number of tornadoes in Southeast Michigan for any year (records go back to 1950).  These latest 2 tornadoes also pushes the state total to 25 which is the most tornadoes for Michigan since 2001 when there were 35 tornadoes across the state.

 

 

 

Year Number of TORs
1973 20
1974 19
2004 16
1997 14
1988 13
1984, 1986, 2010 12
1975, 1990 11
1976, 1977, 2001, 2007 10