Minnesota

Storm History: Hennepin County, Minnesota

584 episodes, 1,442 events since 1951

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.

Open the live radar over Hennepin County

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
Tornado49415312$999 million
Hail48404$23 million
Flash Flood18802$21 million
Winter Storm7600
Thunderstorm Wind7013$26,000
Blizzard1700$18 million
Winter Weather1600
Heavy Snow1500
High Wind1300$27,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Excessive Heat10328
Flood900$4.0 million
Cold/Wind Chill800
Heavy Rain800
Lightning704$465,000
Heat700
Ice Storm200
Funnel Cloud200
Dense Fog200
Strong Wind200$20,000
Frost/Freeze100$20,000

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 Hennepin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.