Storm History: Hennepin County, Minnesota
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hennepin 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
- 1,442
- Deaths
- 19
- Injuries
- 353
- Damage
- $1.1 billion
- Episodes
- 584
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 494 | 15 | 312 | $999 million |
| Hail | 484 | 0 | 4 | $23 million |
| Flash Flood | 188 | 0 | 2 | $21 million |
| Winter Storm | 76 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 70 | 1 | 3 | $26,000 |
| Blizzard | 17 | 0 | 0 | $18 million |
| Winter Weather | 16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 13 | 0 | 0 | $27,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 10 | 3 | 28 | |
| Flood | 9 | 0 | 0 | $4.0 million |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 7 | 0 | 4 | $465,000 |
| Heat | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 2 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, May 15, 1998
- Tornado, May 22, 2011
- Tornado, September 21, 2005
- Tornado, May 6, 1965
- Tornado, September 16, 2006
- Tornado, June 11, 2001
- Tornado, July 20, 1951
- Tornado, June 14, 1981
- Tornado, April 26, 1984
- Tornado, July 23, 1987
- Tornado, August 24, 2006
- Blizzard, December 10, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2013
- Hail, August 11, 2023
- Tornado, May 1, 2001
- Hail, July 5, 1994
- Flood, June 18, 2014
- Hail, May 30, 1998
- Tornado, June 23, 1952
- Tornado, May 22, 1979
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, June 16, 1992
- Tornado, May 6, 1965
- Tornado, July 7, 1955
- Tornado, April 30, 1967
- Tornado, July 3, 1983
- Tornado, March 29, 1998
- Tornado, June 17, 2010
- Tornado, July 20, 1951
- Tornado, April 26, 1984
- Tornado, May 5, 1964
- Tornado, June 14, 1981
- Tornado, June 7, 1984
- Tornado, April 20, 1985
- Tornado, July 23, 1987
- Tornado, July 1, 1997
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, June 19, 2026
- Hail, April 17, 2026
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2026
- Blizzard, March 14, 2026
- High Wind, March 12, 2026
- Winter Weather, February 24, 2026
- Blizzard, February 18, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 4, 2026
- Blizzard, December 28, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 22, 2025
- Winter Storm, December 9, 2025
- Winter Storm, November 28, 2025
- Winter Storm, November 25, 2025
- Hail, September 21, 2025
- Hail, August 15, 2025
- Hail, August 8, 2025
- Hail, July 28, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2025
- Tornado, June 28, 2025
- Tornado, June 25, 2025
- Tornado, June 16, 2025
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2025
- Winter Weather, March 29, 2025
- Blizzard, March 4, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 17, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 14, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 7, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2025
- Winter Weather, January 11, 2025
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2024
- Winter Weather, December 4, 2024
- Winter Weather, November 20, 2024
- Winter Weather, October 31, 2024
- Tornado, August 29, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 27, 2024
- Tornado, August 26, 2024
- Tornado, August 3, 2024
- Hail, July 31, 2024
- Tornado, July 13, 2024
- Hail, July 10, 2024
- Flash Flood, June 15, 2024
- Hail, June 12, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 24, 2024
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2024
- Winter Weather, October 30, 2023
- Hail, October 23, 2023
- Tornado, September 29, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 22, 2023
- Hail, August 11, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 27, 2023
- Hail, July 19, 2023
- Hail, July 13, 2023
- Hail, June 24, 2023
- Hail, June 23, 2023
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2023
- Hail, March 31, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 31, 2023
- Winter Weather, March 9, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 5, 2023
- Winter Weather, February 27, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2023
- Winter Weather, January 11, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2023
- Blizzard, December 22, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 21, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 21, 2022
- Winter Storm, November 28, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 2, 2022
- Excessive Heat, August 2, 2022
- Excessive Heat, June 19, 2022
- Tornado, May 30, 2022
- Hail, May 19, 2022
- Tornado, May 12, 2022
- Tornado, May 11, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 23, 2022
- Hail, April 12, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 5, 2022
- Blizzard, February 18, 2022
- High Wind, December 15, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 10, 2021
- Tornado, September 17, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 26, 2021
- Hail, August 24, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 9, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 2021
- Hail, April 5, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 13, 2021
- Blizzard, December 23, 2020
- Ice Storm, November 10, 2020
- Winter Storm, October 20, 2020
- Hail, September 5, 2020
- Tornado, August 14, 2020
- Hail, August 9, 2020
- Tornado, July 17, 2020
- Hail, July 8, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 12, 2020
- Winter Storm, February 8, 2020
- Blizzard, January 17, 2020
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2019
- Tornado, September 2, 2019
- Hail, August 5, 2019
- Hail, July 26, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2019
- Tornado, July 15, 2019
- Strong Wind, June 30, 2019
- Blizzard, April 10, 2019
- Winter Storm, March 9, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 10, 2019
- Blizzard, February 7, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 3, 2018
- Hail, August 24, 2018
- Hail, August 3, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 12, 2018
- High Wind, June 11, 2018
- Hail, May 28, 2018
- Tornado, May 25, 2018
- Hail, May 24, 2018
- Blizzard, April 13, 2018
- Winter Storm, April 3, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2018
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2018
- Blizzard, January 22, 2018
- Tornado, September 19, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 4, 2017
- Hail, August 6, 2017
- Hail, July 25, 2017
- Tornado, June 13, 2017
- Tornado, June 11, 2017
- High Wind, December 26, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 17, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 16, 2016
- Flash Flood, September 20, 2016
- Lightning, August 30, 2016
- Hail, August 19, 2016
- Flash Flood, August 16, 2016
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2016
- Hail, August 4, 2016
- Hail, July 21, 2016
- Excessive Heat, July 20, 2016
- Tornado, July 5, 2016
- Hail, June 12, 2016
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 16, 2016
- Flash Flood, September 17, 2015
- Lightning, September 2, 2015
- Tornado, July 17, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2015
- Hail, June 29, 2015
- Hail, May 3, 2015
- Winter Storm, November 9, 2014
- Tornado, July 7, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2014
- Flood, June 18, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2014
- High Wind, June 14, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2014
- Lightning, May 31, 2014
- Tornado, May 8, 2014
- Hail, May 7, 2014
- Winter Storm, April 16, 2014
- Winter Storm, April 3, 2014
- Blizzard, February 20, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 30, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2014
- Winter Storm, December 2, 2013
- Hail, September 19, 2013
- Excessive Heat, August 25, 2013
- Tornado, August 6, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2013
- Tornado, June 20, 2013
- Hail, June 16, 2013
- Hail, May 31, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 22, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 18, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 9, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 3, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 9, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2012
- Hail, November 10, 2012
- Lightning, October 23, 2012
- Hail, August 3, 2012
- Hail, July 13, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 3, 2012
- Hail, June 19, 2012
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2012
- Tornado, June 10, 2012
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2012
- Hail, May 26, 2012
- Heavy Rain, May 24, 2012
- Hail, May 24, 2012
- Hail, May 19, 2012
- Hail, May 5, 2012
- Hail, May 3, 2012
- Tornado, April 15, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, April 10, 2012
- Hail, April 2, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 28, 2012
- Winter Weather, December 31, 2011
- Flash Flood, August 16, 2011
- Flash Flood, August 1, 2011
- Hail, July 19, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 18, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 15, 2011
- Tornado, July 10, 2011
- Tornado, July 1, 2011
- Excessive Heat, June 7, 2011
- Hail, May 30, 2011
- Tornado, May 22, 2011
- Tornado, May 21, 2011
- Tornado, May 10, 2011
- Hail, May 9, 2011
- Winter Storm, March 22, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 20, 2010
- Blizzard, December 10, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 3, 2010
- Winter Storm, November 12, 2010
- High Wind, October 26, 2010
- Hail, September 21, 2010
- Tornado, August 12, 2010
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2010
- Hail, August 8, 2010
- Tornado, July 17, 2010
- Tornado, June 26, 2010
- Tornado, June 25, 2010
- Tornado, June 17, 2010
- Hail, May 22, 2010
- Hail, April 30, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 7, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2009
- Blizzard, December 8, 2009
- Winter Weather, October 12, 2009
- Tornado, August 19, 2009
- Tornado, August 8, 2009
- Flash Flood, August 8, 2009
- Hail, August 2, 2009
- Hail, July 22, 2009
- Hail, July 21, 2009
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Hennepin CountyEvery warning in Hennepin 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.