Minnesota

Storms in Minnesota in 2003

1,050 events in 184 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Minnesota in 2003, 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 2003 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
1,050
Deaths
1
Injuries
13
Damage
$63 million
Episodes
184

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
Hail37503$17 million
Thunderstorm Wind25312$186,000
Winter Storm16600$20,000
Tornado5406$37 million
Heavy Snow4800
Blizzard3600
Flash Flood2701$10,000
Winter Weather2400
Cold/Wind Chill2400$500,000
Funnel Cloud1300
High Wind1101$20,000
Ice Storm900
Lightning500$255,000
Flood400$8.0 million
Wildfire100$20,000

Every episode, month by month

January 2003

February 2003

March 2003

April 2003

May 2003

June 2003

July 2003

August 2003

September 2003

October 2003

November 2003

December 2003

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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.