Heavy Rain in Minnesota

Events

668

Deaths

4

Injuries

3

Damage

$383,000

• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Minnesota, August 18 to 21, 20077 deaths · 32 injured · $182 million · 27 eventsA warm front lifting northward into Iowa triggered round after round of thunderstorms with excessive rainfall across southeast Minnesota during the evening and overnight hours of August 18-19. This was after rain had fallen earlier in the day.
• Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, September 16, 20061 death · $31 million · F2 · 31 eventsMultiple reports of the funnel.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, May 5 to 6, 20122 deaths · 2 injured · $25,000 · 1.5 in hail · 22 eventsTwo waves of thunderstorms moved across southern and central Minnesota over a span of 12 to 18 hours and produced up to 2 to 5 inches of rainfall across portions of the area. The first complex moved across southern Minnesota and produced large hail near New Ulm.
• Heavy Rain in Minnesota, May 8, 20182 deaths · 3 injured · 1 eventTwo individuals were killed with three others injured, one with life-threatening injuries, when one vehicle skidded into another. Pavement was wet from recent rainfall. According to the MN State Patrol, all involved in the crash were wearing seat belts.
• Flash Flood and Hail in Minnesota, July 14, 20092 deaths · $17,000 · 1 in hail · 13 eventsA strong low pressure system pushed across south central Canada on Tuesday (July 14th), and its trough of low pressure developed strong thunderstorms over the southern Red River Valley and West Central Minnesota.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 26, 20072 deaths · 1 in hail · 14 eventsWarm frontal boundary induced severe thunderstorms.
• Tornado and Flash Flood in Minnesota, September 20, 20071 death · $700,000 · EF0 · 68 eventsWarm frontal boundary induced severe weather.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Minnesota, July 2 to 5, 20181 death · $1.5 million · 12 eventsDuring the overnight hours of Tuesday, July 3rd, a persistent line of storms, with rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour, moved very little from Marshall to Redwood Falls, Olivia, then southward to Tracy, Lamberton, and Springfield, Minnesota.
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Minnesota, June 21 to 22, 2013$18 million · 1.75 in hail · 86 eventsTwo rounds of severe thunderstorms occurred across portions of southern and central Minnesota, between Friday afternoon, June 21st and early Saturday morning, June 22nd.
• Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, July 5, 2016$4.4 million · EF1 · 79 eventsThe early afternoon of Tuesday, July 5th, two areas of thunderstorms developed across west central Minnesota and produced several large hail stones.
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Minnesota, September 3 to 4, 20053 injured · $1.1 million · 2.75 in hail · 92 eventsGolf ball sized hail fell at Games Lake. A number of campers at the lake campground suffered dents and puncture holes in awnings.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Minnesota, September 22 to 27, 2010$33 million · 45 eventsA stationary front set up across southern Minnesota on the evening of September 22nd. As an unusually moist air mass flowed over this boundary, heavy rain developed and fell repeatedly across the area during the evening and overnight hours.
• Tornado and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 20 to 21, 2013$3.6 million · EF0 · 90 eventsSeveral rounds of thunderstorms developed Thursday late afternoon and evening, June 20th, mostly in west central Minnesota, and moved eastward.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Minnesota, September 22 to 26, 2010$39 million · 35 eventsA strong storm system, in combination with deep moisture from the remnants of a tropical system, produced a large area of flooding rainfall with amounts as high as 8 and 11 inches in an 18 hour period.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Minnesota, July 14, 2009$885,000 · EF2 · 17 eventsA strong cold front, deep moisture and a high shear environment led to severe weather across portions of central Minnesota late Tuesday afternoon and evening of July 14th.
• Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, July 17 to 22, 2010$7.3 million · EF0 · 67 eventsThe atmosphere became very unstable Saturday afternoon, and along with a strong wind shear, aided in the development of very large hail, isolated tornadoes and significant straight-line wind damage.
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Minnesota, June 14 to 15, 2012$1.3 million · 1.25 in hail · 80 eventsThunderstorms developed early Thursday morning across North Dakota, and moved southeast across west-central Minnesota, and eventually across central and east central Minnesota by the afternoon.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 17 to 18, 2012$1.3 million · EF0 · 73 eventsA large cluster of thunderstorms that formed across the eastern Dakotas, moved eastward and developed a long-lived bow echo that moved across southern Minnesota during the evening of Sunday June 17th.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Minnesota, September 20 to 23, 2016$2.0 million · 1.75 in hail · 58 eventsOn the evening of September 20th, a warm front was stretched west to east across southern Minnesota originating from a developing low pressure system across the South Dakota and Nebraska border.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, July 11, 20161 injured · $50,000 · EF2 · 30 eventsThe morning of Monday, July 11th, two waves of thunderstorms moved across west central and central Minnesota. Very heavy rainfall and isolated hail occurred with the main area of storms. But these storms also produced a wide area of one half to two inches of rain by sunrise.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Minnesota, June 22 to 25, 2013$11 million · 1 in hail · 15 eventsSeveral rounds of thunderstorms with very heavy rain rolled across southeast Minnesota during the late afternoon and evening of June 22nd. The heavy rain produced widespread flash flooding across much of Houston County into the eastern sections of Fillmore County.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 9 to 10, 2020$1.7 million · 2.75 in hail · 42 eventsDuring the evening of Sunday, August 9th, a storm developed in Carver County, west of the NWS office. Several more storms developed and trained over the same areas that affected eastern Carver, far northern Scott, and southern Hennepin Counties for an hour.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Minnesota, September 21 to 27, 2016$3.2 million · 0.88 in hail · 27 eventsSeveral rounds of thunderstorms with heavy rain moved across southeast Minnesota from the early morning hours of September 21st into the morning of the 22nd. The heavy rain led to flash flooding across portions of Mower, Fillmore, Houston and Winona Counties.
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Minnesota, June 16 to 17, 2014$775,000 · 1.75 in hail · 55 eventsThe afternoon of Monday, June 16th, two major thunderstorm complexes across Nebraska and South Dakota, congealed into one along the Minnesota, Iowa border from Sioux Falls, eastward along I-90 to Fairmont and Albert Lea.
• Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in Minnesota, July 13, 2013$3.1 million · 25 eventsScattered thunderstorms that developed across west central Minnesota early Saturday morning, July 13th, moved southeast across central, east central and south central Minnesota by daybreak.

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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.