Minnesota

Storm History: Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

345 episodes, 505 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lac qui Parle 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
505
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$4.7 million
Episodes
345

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
Hail11400$380,000
Tornado11100$1.1 million
Winter Storm6700
Blizzard5000
Flash Flood3900$767,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2600
Thunderstorm Wind2401$1.2 million
Heavy Snow1700
High Wind1500
Flood1300$1.2 million
Cold/Wind Chill800
Heat600
Excessive Heat600
Winter Weather600
Dense Fog100
Frost/Freeze100
Ice Storm100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Lac qui Parle County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lac qui Parle CountyEvery warning in Lac qui Parle 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.