Minnesota

Storm History: Meeker County, Minnesota

341 episodes, 532 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Meeker 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
532
Deaths
0
Injuries
8
Damage
$18 million
Episodes
341

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
Tornado18904$17 million
Hail12300$150,000
Winter Storm5800
Flash Flood4403$1.1 million
Blizzard2200
Thunderstorm Wind1901$10,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1800
Heavy Snow1500
High Wind900$10,000
Cold/Wind Chill800
Winter Weather700
Heat600
Excessive Heat600
Flood500
Dense Fog100
Funnel Cloud100
Frost/Freeze100$20,000

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 Meeker County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Meeker CountyEvery warning in Meeker 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.