Storm History: Mille Lacs County, Minnesota
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Mille Lacs 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
- 400
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 5
- Damage
- $1.8 million
- Episodes
- 307
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 103 | 1 | 2 | $1.2 million |
| Hail | 100 | 0 | 1 | $188,000 |
| Winter Storm | 64 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 29 | 0 | 2 | $45,000 |
| Flash Flood | 21 | 0 | 0 | $350,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 19 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 17 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 4 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Flood | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 2 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flash Flood, April 22, 2001
- Tornado, September 16, 1955
- Tornado, July 8, 1959
- Tornado, August 14, 2020
- Tornado, August 26, 2019
- Hail, July 17, 2001
- Tornado, May 1, 2012
- Hail, May 29, 2018
- Tornado, June 4, 1974
- Tornado, July 8, 1974
- Tornado, July 3, 1985
- Tornado, June 20, 1986
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2010
- Tornado, August 7, 2010
- Tornado, July 30, 2011
- Hail, July 23, 2001
- Frost/Freeze, April 10, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 11, 2018
- Tornado, July 1, 2011
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, June 16, 1992
- Tornado, July 25, 2000
- Tornado, May 10, 1982
- Tornado, July 5, 1991
- Tornado, September 18, 1997
- Tornado, June 13, 2001
- Tornado, August 24, 2006
- Tornado, May 25, 2008
- Tornado, July 11, 2008
- Tornado, July 8, 1959
- Tornado, July 3, 1985
- Tornado, July 18, 1986
- Tornado, July 21, 1995
- Tornado, July 11, 2016
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, June 19, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 15, 2026
- Hail, June 10, 2026
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2026
- Blizzard, March 14, 2026
- Winter Weather, February 24, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2026
- Blizzard, December 28, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 25, 2025
- Winter Storm, December 9, 2025
- Winter Storm, November 25, 2025
- Tornado, June 28, 2025
- Tornado, April 28, 2025
- Hail, April 17, 2025
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2025
- Winter Weather, March 29, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 17, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 14, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 7, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2025
- Winter Weather, January 11, 2025
- Winter Storm, March 24, 2024
- Winter Weather, October 30, 2023
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 31, 2023
- Blizzard, March 16, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2023
- Blizzard, December 22, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 21, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 13, 2022
- Excessive Heat, August 2, 2022
- Hail, May 12, 2022
- Tornado, May 11, 2022
- Hail, May 9, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 26, 2021
- Hail, September 16, 2021
- Tornado, August 28, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 24, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 28, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 13, 2021
- Blizzard, December 23, 2020
- Ice Storm, November 10, 2020
- Tornado, August 14, 2020
- Tornado, July 17, 2020
- Hail, July 8, 2020
- Hail, June 1, 2020
- Blizzard, January 17, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2019
- Winter Storm, November 30, 2019
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2019
- Tornado, September 2, 2019
- Tornado, August 26, 2019
- Hail, July 26, 2019
- Hail, July 19, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2019
- Winter Storm, March 9, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2019
- Blizzard, February 7, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2019
- Blizzard, December 26, 2018
- Hail, August 26, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 11, 2018
- Hail, May 29, 2018
- Hail, May 28, 2018
- Blizzard, April 13, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 30, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2018
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 29, 2017
- Hail, September 22, 2017
- Tornado, September 19, 2017
- Tornado, July 11, 2017
- Tornado, July 9, 2017
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 17, 2016
- Blizzard, November 18, 2016
- Flash Flood, August 29, 2016
- Tornado, July 11, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 16, 2016
- Tornado, July 12, 2015
- Hail, July 11, 2015
- Hail, June 29, 2015
- Hail, June 7, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 22, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 7, 2015
- Winter Storm, November 9, 2014
- Hail, September 3, 2014
- Hail, July 26, 2014
- Hail, July 21, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 31, 2014
- Winter Storm, April 16, 2014
- Winter Storm, April 3, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 18, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 1, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 26, 2014
- Blizzard, February 20, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 31, 2013
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 11, 2013
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 7, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 2, 2013
- Tornado, June 20, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 18, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 9, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 3, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 9, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2012
- Hail, August 3, 2012
- Tornado, June 10, 2012
- Hail, May 28, 2012
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2012
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2012
- Hail, May 18, 2012
- Tornado, May 1, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, April 10, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 28, 2012
- Heavy Snow, November 19, 2011
- Flash Flood, August 16, 2011
- Tornado, July 30, 2011
- Hail, July 19, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 18, 2011
- Tornado, July 1, 2011
- Tornado, May 10, 2011
- Winter Storm, March 22, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2011
- Blizzard, December 10, 2010
- Winter Storm, November 28, 2010
- High Wind, October 26, 2010
- Tornado, August 13, 2010
- Tornado, August 12, 2010
- Tornado, August 7, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2009
- Hail, June 18, 2009
- Blizzard, March 10, 2009
- Winter Storm, February 26, 2009
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 30, 2008
- Blizzard, December 20, 2008
- Blizzard, December 14, 2008
- Hail, August 3, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2008
- Tornado, July 11, 2008
- Hail, June 12, 2008
- Tornado, May 25, 2008
- Winter Storm, April 10, 2008
- Heavy Snow, April 1, 2008
- Heavy Snow, March 31, 2008
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 19, 2008
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 10, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2007
- Tornado, September 20, 2007
- Flash Flood, August 13, 2007
- Hail, July 26, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2007
- Hail, June 20, 2007
- Flash Flood, June 10, 2007
- Hail, May 22, 2007
- Winter Storm, April 2, 2007
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2007
- Winter Storm, December 31, 2006
- Hail, October 3, 2006
- Tornado, August 24, 2006
- Heat, July 30, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2006
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 2006
- Heavy Snow, December 29, 2005
- Flood, October 4, 2005
- Flash Flood, October 4, 2005
- Hail, September 5, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 9, 2005
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2005
- Tornado, June 29, 2005
- Tornado, June 13, 2005
- Blizzard, January 21, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2005
- High Wind, December 12, 2004
- Frost/Freeze, August 21, 2004
- Tornado, April 18, 2004
- Hail, April 17, 2004
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2004
- Winter Storm, November 22, 2003
- Hail, July 2, 2003
- Tornado, June 24, 2003
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2003
- Hail, September 1, 2002
- Tornado, August 16, 2002
- Hail, July 27, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2002
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2002
- Hail, June 25, 2002
- Winter Storm, March 14, 2002
- Winter Storm, March 8, 2002
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2002
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2001
- Heat, August 4, 2001
- Heat, August 1, 2001
- Heat, July 30, 2001
- Hail, July 23, 2001
- Hail, July 17, 2001
- Hail, June 18, 2001
- Tornado, June 13, 2001
- Flash Flood, April 22, 2001
- Flood, April 1, 2001
- Dense Fog, March 30, 2001
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2001
- Heavy Snow, February 23, 2001
- Winter Storm, January 29, 2001
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2000
- Tornado, July 25, 2000
- Tornado, July 7, 2000
- Tornado, May 7, 2000
- Strong Wind, December 25, 1999
- Tornado, July 30, 1999
- Heat, July 29, 1999
- Hail, July 28, 1999
- Heat, July 23, 1999
- Hail, July 22, 1999
- Hail, June 8, 1999
- Hail, June 6, 1999
- High Wind, March 17, 1999
- Winter Storm, March 8, 1999
- Hail, September 25, 1998
- Tornado, June 25, 1998
- Hail, May 30, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 8, 1997
- Tornado, September 18, 1997
- Hail, August 15, 1997
- Hail, August 2, 1997
- Tornado, June 28, 1997
- Flood, April 1, 1997
- Flood, March 26, 1997
- Winter Storm, March 13, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 15, 1997
- Winter Storm, January 3, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 24, 1996
- Winter Storm, December 23, 1996
- Heavy Snow, November 20, 1996
- High Wind, October 29, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 6, 1996
- Hail, July 21, 1996
- Hail, July 21, 1996
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Mille Lacs CountyEvery warning in Mille Lacs 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.