Minnesota

Storm History: Carver County, Minnesota

392 episodes, 659 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Carver 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
659
Deaths
5
Injuries
191
Damage
$125 million
Episodes
392

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
Tornado2143189$105 million
Hail17602$9.8 million
Winter Storm7410
Flash Flood5800$446,000
Thunderstorm Wind2000$14,000
Blizzard2000
Heavy Snow1500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1210
High Wind1100$2,000
Flood1100$9.2 million
Winter Weather1100
Cold/Wind Chill800
Excessive Heat800
Heat600
Heavy Rain500
Ice Storm300
Funnel Cloud300
Dense Fog200
Frost/Freeze100$20,000
Lightning100$200,000

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 Carver County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Carver CountyEvery warning in Carver 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.