Minnesota

Storm History: Brown County, Minnesota

375 episodes, 519 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Brown 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
519
Deaths
3
Injuries
25
Damage
$64 million
Episodes
375

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
Tornado150123$49 million
Hail11600$13 million
Winter Storm6400
Blizzard4300
Flash Flood3000$720,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2620
Thunderstorm Wind1602
Heavy Snow1500
High Wind1500
Flood1000$850,000
Cold/Wind Chill800
Winter Weather800
Heat600
Excessive Heat600
Ice Storm200
Dense Fog200
Heavy Rain100
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 Brown County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Brown CountyEvery warning in Brown 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.