Minnesota

Storms in Minnesota in 2000

1,017 events in 274 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Minnesota in 2000, 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 2000 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
1,017
Deaths
3
Injuries
20
Damage
$96 million
Episodes
274

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
Hail40800$6.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind15510$2.0 million
Winter Storm11100
Heavy Snow10000$75,000
High Wind5900$100,000
Blizzard4500
Tornado33219$44 million
Flash Flood3100$42 million
Drought2400
Flood1800$1.2 million
Lightning1201$179,000
Ice Storm1200$20,000
Funnel Cloud900

Every episode, month by month

January 2000

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March 2000

April 2000

May 2000

June 2000

July 2000

August 2000

September 2000

November 2000

December 2000

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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.