Minnesota

Storms in Minnesota in 1996

1,654 events in 711 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Minnesota in 1996, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. 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.

Minnesota in 1996 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

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The year

Events
1,654
Deaths
6
Injuries
29
Damage
$63 million
Episodes
711

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
Hail30502$5.1 million
Heavy Snow30400$8,000
Cold/Wind Chill26700$5,000
Thunderstorm Wind24205$39 million
Blizzard21535$210,000
High Wind10500$269,000
Ice Storm5800$13 million
Winter Storm5710$90,000
Tornado34011$3.5 million
Funnel Cloud2400
Lightning1526$501,000
Flash Flood1000$440,000
Winter Weather900$50,000
Flood700
Heavy Rain100$20,000
Debris Flow100

Every episode, month by month

January 1996

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September 1996

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November 1996

December 1996

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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.