North Dakota

Storms in North Dakota in 2010

1,420 events in 137 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in North Dakota in 2010, 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.

North Dakota in 2010 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
1,420
Deaths
1
Injuries
7
Damage
$101 million
Episodes
137

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
Hail37701$3.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind25500$268,000
High Wind13200$515,000
Blizzard12000$20 million
Heavy Snow11400
Winter Storm10200$36 million
Winter Weather8100
Tornado6614$19 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill5400
Flood3500$1.7 million
Flash Flood3402$20 million
Funnel Cloud3100
Lightning700$12,000
Heavy Rain600
Ice Storm600

Every episode, month by month

January 2010

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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.