Minnesota

Storm History: Carlton County, Minnesota

420 episodes, 570 events since 1967

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.

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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
Hail11700$228,000
Heavy Snow10632$5,000
Tornado7002$421,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill4510
Flash Flood4500$41 million
Drought4200
Thunderstorm Wind3500$2,000
Blizzard2310$5.5 million
Ice Storm1900$5.2 million
Winter Storm1500$9.5 million
Cold/Wind Chill1331
Winter Weather933
Rip Current624
Flood500$161,000
High Wind500$5,000
Lakeshore Flood500$19 million
Lake-Effect Snow400
Heat250
Strong Wind100
Lightning100$500,000
Excessive Heat100
Dense Fog110

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 Carlton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

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.