Minnesota

Storm History: Dodge County, Minnesota

397 episodes, 573 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dodge 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
573
Deaths
1
Injuries
10
Damage
$21 million
Episodes
397

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
Hail13500$1.2 million
Tornado11900$1.4 million
Winter Storm6600$750,000
Flash Flood4900$7.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind3000$8.6 million
Heavy Snow2602$70,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2400
Blizzard2100$25,000
Drought1800
High Wind1400$124,000
Flood1200$58,000
Funnel Cloud1200
Winter Weather1014$59,000
Cold/Wind Chill800
Heat800
Excessive Heat500$25,000
Ice Storm400
Lightning401$935,000
Dense Fog403$15,000
Strong Wind300$500
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 Dodge County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dodge CountyEvery warning in Dodge 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.