North Dakota

Storms in North Dakota in 2022

1,486 events in 132 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in North Dakota in 2022, 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 2022 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
1,486
Deaths
6
Injuries
5
Damage
$70 million
Episodes
132

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
Blizzard28920$60 million
Thunderstorm Wind28900
High Wind25811$75,000
Hail18800$6.9 million
Heavy Snow14800
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill9800
Drought8800
Cold/Wind Chill6200
Tornado1600$306,000
Strong Wind1400
Winter Storm1000
Funnel Cloud900
Flash Flood800$2.3 million
Heavy Rain300
Dense Fog214$225,000
Winter Weather200
Flood120$30,000
Ice Storm100

Every episode, month by month

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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.