Minnesota

Storms in Minnesota in 2015

1,231 events in 184 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Minnesota in 2015, 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 2015 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
1,231
Deaths
4
Injuries
7
Damage
$5.8 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
Hail35810$90,000
Thunderstorm Wind25200$107,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill14500
Winter Storm10800
Drought5400
Blizzard5200
Winter Weather4921$18,000
Tornado4101$4.5 million
Heavy Snow3900$8,000
Frost/Freeze3500
High Wind3401$102,000
Funnel Cloud2600
Lightning1303$699,000
Flash Flood901$213,000
Heavy Rain700
Flood400$15,000
Strong Wind300
Cold/Wind Chill110
Wildfire100$100,000

Every episode, month by month

January 2015

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November 2015

December 2015

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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.