Minnesota

Storm History: Kanabec County, Minnesota

237 episodes, 314 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kanabec 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
314
Deaths
1
Injuries
5
Damage
$823,000
Episodes
237

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
Hail7901$51,000
Tornado7212$355,000
Winter Storm5900
Flash Flood1600$365,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1600
Thunderstorm Wind1502$32,000
Blizzard1400
Cold/Wind Chill800
Heavy Snow800
Winter Weather700
Heat600
Flood400
High Wind300$100
Frost/Freeze200$20,000
Heavy Rain200
Dense Fog100
Excessive Heat100
Ice Storm100

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 Kanabec County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Kanabec CountyEvery warning in Kanabec 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.