Storm History: Carlton County, Minnesota
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Carlton 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
- 570
- Deaths
- 19
- Injuries
- 12
- Damage
- $81 million
- Episodes
- 420
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 117 | 0 | 0 | $228,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 106 | 3 | 2 | $5,000 |
| Tornado | 70 | 0 | 2 | $421,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 45 | 1 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 45 | 0 | 0 | $41 million |
| Drought | 42 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 35 | 0 | 0 | $2,000 |
| Blizzard | 23 | 1 | 0 | $5.5 million |
| Ice Storm | 19 | 0 | 0 | $5.2 million |
| Winter Storm | 15 | 0 | 0 | $9.5 million |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 13 | 3 | 1 | |
| Winter Weather | 9 | 3 | 3 | |
| Rip Current | 6 | 2 | 4 | |
| Flood | 5 | 0 | 0 | $161,000 |
| High Wind | 5 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Lakeshore Flood | 5 | 0 | 0 | $19 million |
| Lake-Effect Snow | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 2 | 5 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $500,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 1 | 1 | 0 |
The deadliest
- Heat, August 7, 2001
- Rip Current, August 10, 2017
- Winter Weather, February 3, 2018
- Blizzard, October 26, 2017
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 25, 2009
- Winter Weather, May 7, 2010
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 17, 2012
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 27, 2012
- Dense Fog, September 15, 2017
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 16, 2017
- Heavy Snow, February 19, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 10, 2021
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2023
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2012
- Lakeshore Flood, October 9, 2018
- Winter Storm, April 14, 2018
- Ice Storm, April 22, 2001
- Blizzard, October 26, 2017
- Blizzard, February 28, 2012
- Ice Storm, November 10, 2022
- Blizzard, March 11, 2023
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2001
- Lightning, June 26, 2002
- Lakeshore Flood, October 21, 2019
- Tornado, July 7, 1970
- Flood, April 6, 1997
- Hail, August 27, 2007
- Hail, April 17, 2025
- Tornado, June 12, 2024
- Flash Flood, August 2, 2011
- Tornado, September 19, 2024
- Tornado, June 19, 1967
- Tornado, July 13, 1973
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, August 31, 2018
- Hail, September 16, 2021
- Hail, July 18, 2020
- Hail, July 19, 2023
- Flash Flood, June 23, 2022
- Hail, August 27, 2007
- Hail, July 14, 2003
- Hail, September 2, 2002
- Hail, September 5, 1990
- Hail, July 17, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2012
- Hail, August 14, 2000
- Hail, July 29, 1988
- Hail, April 17, 2025
- Hail, May 9, 2022
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, June 29, 2026
- Hail, June 10, 2026
- Heavy Snow, April 2, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Heavy Snow, March 14, 2026
- Blizzard, March 12, 2026
- Drought, March 1, 2026
- Blizzard, February 17, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 18, 2026
- Heavy Snow, January 15, 2026
- Drought, January 1, 2026
- Drought, December 1, 2025
- Heavy Snow, November 29, 2025
- Heavy Snow, November 25, 2025
- Drought, November 4, 2025
- Hail, July 15, 2025
- Hail, June 23, 2025
- Hail, April 17, 2025
- Blizzard, April 1, 2025
- Ice Storm, March 28, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 18, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 17, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 11, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 1, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 18, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 11, 2025
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Tornado, September 19, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 31, 2024
- Tornado, June 12, 2024
- Hail, June 5, 2024
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 24, 2024
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2024
- Winter Weather, December 17, 2023
- Drought, October 1, 2023
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 25, 2023
- Rip Current, August 4, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2023
- Hail, July 19, 2023
- Drought, July 1, 2023
- Drought, June 20, 2023
- Hail, May 9, 2023
- Heavy Snow, April 20, 2023
- Ice Storm, April 4, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2023
- Blizzard, March 11, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 6, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2023
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 2, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 3, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 22, 2022
- Winter Weather, December 16, 2022
- Blizzard, December 13, 2022
- Ice Storm, November 10, 2022
- Drought, November 1, 2022
- Drought, October 4, 2022
- Hail, August 17, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 23, 2022
- Hail, June 20, 2022
- Tornado, May 29, 2022
- Tornado, May 18, 2022
- Hail, May 9, 2022
- Heavy Snow, April 5, 2022
- Heavy Snow, February 21, 2022
- Winter Weather, February 18, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 13, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 12, 2022
- Heavy Snow, February 5, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 25, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2022
- Heavy Snow, January 4, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2022
- Blizzard, December 26, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 16, 2021
- Blizzard, December 4, 2021
- Drought, December 1, 2021
- Drought, November 1, 2021
- Drought, October 1, 2021
- Hail, September 16, 2021
- Drought, September 1, 2021
- Rip Current, August 7, 2021
- Drought, August 1, 2021
- Drought, July 20, 2021
- Rip Current, July 1, 2021
- Rip Current, June 5, 2021
- Hail, April 5, 2021
- Heavy Snow, March 10, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 13, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 12, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 6, 2021
- Heavy Snow, December 29, 2020
- Blizzard, December 23, 2020
- Heavy Snow, November 14, 2020
- Heavy Snow, November 10, 2020
- Heavy Snow, October 20, 2020
- Tornado, August 14, 2020
- Hail, August 7, 2020
- Hail, July 18, 2020
- Tornado, July 8, 2020
- Drought, July 7, 2020
- Heavy Snow, March 28, 2020
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 12, 2020
- Heavy Snow, January 17, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2019
- Heavy Snow, December 8, 2019
- Lakeshore Flood, December 1, 2019
- Blizzard, November 29, 2019
- Heavy Snow, November 26, 2019
- Lakeshore Flood, October 21, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2019
- Heavy Snow, May 8, 2019
- Heavy Snow, April 11, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 6, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 5, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 26, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 21, 2019
- Heavy Snow, December 26, 2018
- Lakeshore Flood, October 9, 2018
- Flash Flood, September 14, 2018
- Hail, August 31, 2018
- Hail, June 30, 2018
- Hail, June 28, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 15, 2018
- Winter Storm, April 14, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 5, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 24, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 19, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 19, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 4, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 3, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 12, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 3, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 24, 2017
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 16, 2017
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, October 28, 2017
- Blizzard, October 26, 2017
- High Wind, October 24, 2017
- Flash Flood, October 3, 2017
- Hail, September 22, 2017
- Hail, September 20, 2017
- Dense Fog, September 15, 2017
- Rip Current, August 10, 2017
- Hail, July 17, 2017
- Hail, July 6, 2017
- Hail, May 15, 2017
- Lake-Effect Snow, March 13, 2017
- High Wind, March 7, 2017
- Ice Storm, December 25, 2016
- Heavy Snow, December 11, 2016
- Blizzard, November 17, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2016
- Excessive Heat, July 20, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 11, 2016
- Hail, June 25, 2016
- Tornado, June 19, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 16, 2016
- Heavy Snow, December 26, 2015
- Heavy Snow, December 15, 2015
- Hail, August 8, 2015
- Hail, June 29, 2015
- High Wind, April 2, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 22, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 22, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 4, 2015
- Heavy Snow, November 10, 2014
- Hail, August 1, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2014
- Hail, May 7, 2014
- Heavy Snow, April 16, 2014
- Heavy Snow, April 3, 2014
- Heavy Snow, March 27, 2014
- Heavy Snow, March 17, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 1, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 27, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 17, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 8, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 4, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 2, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 30, 2013
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 11, 2013
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 8, 2013
- Heavy Snow, December 2, 2013
- Heavy Snow, April 22, 2013
- Heavy Snow, April 11, 2013
- Drought, April 1, 2013
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2013
- Drought, March 1, 2013
- Heavy Snow, February 10, 2013
- Drought, February 1, 2013
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 21, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Heavy Snow, December 8, 2012
- Drought, December 1, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- Rip Current, August 3, 2012
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2012
- Hail, June 14, 2012
- Hail, June 6, 2012
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2012
- Flood, May 26, 2012
- Heavy Snow, March 3, 2012
- Heavy Snow, March 3, 2012
- Blizzard, February 28, 2012
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 27, 2012
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 19, 2012
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 17, 2012
- Flash Flood, August 8, 2011
- Flash Flood, August 2, 2011
- Hail, July 17, 2011
- Heat, July 16, 2011
- Tornado, May 28, 2011
- Heavy Snow, April 15, 2011
- Heavy Snow, March 22, 2011
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 30, 2011
- Heavy Snow, December 20, 2010
- Heavy Snow, November 29, 2010
- Heavy Snow, November 13, 2010
- Heavy Snow, October 26, 2010
- Tornado, July 14, 2010
- Hail, July 10, 2010
- Hail, May 23, 2010
- Winter Weather, May 7, 2010
- Drought, May 1, 2010
- Drought, April 1, 2010
- Lake-Effect Snow, February 7, 2010
- Ice Storm, January 22, 2010
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2009
- Hail, May 5, 2009
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2009
- Winter Storm, March 31, 2009
- Winter Storm, March 9, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 25, 2009
Earlier years, state by state:
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Tornadoes in Carlton CountyEvery warning in Carlton 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.