Minnesota

Storm History: Cass County, Minnesota

500 episodes, 913 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cass 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
913
Deaths
16
Injuries
82
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
500

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
Hail27301$8,000
Tornado1151375$10 million
Thunderstorm Wind10410
Heavy Snow10113
Drought8800
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill6300
Flash Flood5800$302,000
Winter Storm2500
Blizzard2500
Ice Storm1600
Cold/Wind Chill1610
Flood1400
Winter Weather300
Strong Wind300$1,000
Lightning303$255,000
Excessive Heat200
High Wind100
Waterspout100
Heat100
Lakeshore Flood100

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 Cass County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cass CountyEvery warning in Cass 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.