North Dakota

Storms in North Dakota in 2020

927 events in 100 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in North Dakota in 2020, 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 2020 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
927
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$7.7 million
Episodes
100

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
Hail31300$2.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind28700$239,000
High Wind12400$200,000
Blizzard5700
Funnel Cloud3000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2800
Winter Storm2300
Tornado2300$2.4 million
Heavy Snow1900
Excessive Heat1000
Flash Flood600$2.6 million
Heavy Rain400
Flood300$250,000

Every episode, month by month

January 2020

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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.