Minnesota

Storm History: Lyon County, Minnesota

602 episodes, 853 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lyon 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
853
Deaths
11
Injuries
180
Damage
$78 million
Episodes
602

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
Hail25600$4.5 million
Tornado11210169$6.9 million
Winter Weather7519
Thunderstorm Wind6402$537,000
Winter Storm6200$10,000
Blizzard5400$215,000
High Wind4100$359,000
Flood3500$30 million
Flash Flood3200$170,000
Drought3100$34 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2400
Heavy Snow1600$5,000
Excessive Heat1600
Cold/Wind Chill1400$5,000
Ice Storm600$1.0 million
Heat600
Strong Wind400
Lightning300$6,000
Funnel Cloud100
Wildfire100

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 Lyon County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lyon CountyEvery warning in Lyon 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.