Minnesota

Storms in Minnesota in 1951

4 events in 3 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Minnesota in 1951, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1955 the record holds tornadoes only.

Minnesota in 1951 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Minnesota

The year

Events
4
Deaths
6
Injuries
60
Damage
$30 million
Episodes
3

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado4660$30 million

Every episode, month by month

June 1951

July 1951

More

Every year in MinnesotaEvery state in 1951Tornadoes in Minnesota in 195119501952

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.