Minnesota

Storms in Minnesota in 2012

1,777 events in 221 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Minnesota in 2012, 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 2012 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
1,777
Deaths
11
Injuries
11
Damage
$61 million
Episodes
221

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
Hail59622$4.9 million
Thunderstorm Wind42000$950,000
Drought19400
Winter Storm11412$3,000
Heavy Rain7700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill5900
Flash Flood5510$47 million
Tornado3900$5.3 million
Heavy Snow3700
Flood3400$460,000
Funnel Cloud2600
Excessive Heat2530
Frost/Freeze2300$460,000
Winter Weather2100
Blizzard2000$1.0 million
Lightning1814$616,000
Heat700
High Wind400
Cold/Wind Chill220
Dense Fog212$30,000
Rip Current200
Wildfire201

Every episode, month by month

January 2012

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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.