Minnesota

Storm History: Clearwater County, Minnesota

379 episodes, 633 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clearwater 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
633
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$4.0 million
Episodes
379

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
Winter Storm11900
Tornado10700$2.6 million
Hail10301$253,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill8700
Heavy Snow5600
Drought3900
Cold/Wind Chill2900$42,000
Flash Flood2100$353,000
Frost/Freeze1800
Blizzard1600
High Wind1300$2,000
Thunderstorm Wind1100$752,000
Flood600$15,000
Ice Storm500
Heat200
Excessive Heat100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Clearwater County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Clearwater CountyEvery warning in Clearwater 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.