Minnesota

Storm History: Crow Wing County, Minnesota

435 episodes, 789 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Crow Wing 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
789
Deaths
1
Injuries
24
Damage
$17 million
Episodes
435

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
Hail27800$76,000
Tornado127017$12 million
Thunderstorm Wind11603$1.4 million
Flash Flood8400$1.0 million
Heavy Snow5500$8,000
Drought4200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2300
Blizzard1500
Winter Storm1200
Flood1100
Cold/Wind Chill710
Ice Storm700
Lightning501$1.6 million
Winter Weather203$100,000
Strong Wind100$4,000
Heat100
High Wind100
Excessive Heat100
Wildfire100

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 Crow Wing County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Crow Wing CountyEvery warning in Crow Wing 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.