Minnesota

Storm History: Anoka County, Minnesota

371 episodes, 694 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Anoka County, Minnesota: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
694
Deaths
8
Injuries
217
Damage
$378 million
Episodes
371

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado2664213$176 million
Hail16800$46,000
Flash Flood6400$2.2 million
Winter Storm6300
Thunderstorm Wind3302$100,000
Blizzard1600
Winter Weather1600
Heavy Snow1300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Cold/Wind Chill800
High Wind800$300
Excessive Heat800
Heat610
Heavy Rain600
Ice Storm200
Flood231$200 million
Dense Fog200
Lightning201$15,000
Funnel Cloud100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Anoka County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Anoka CountyEvery warning in Anoka County since 1986Every county in Minnesota

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.