Minnesota

Storm History: Mower County, Minnesota

472 episodes, 732 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Mower 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
732
Deaths
9
Injuries
33
Damage
$61 million
Episodes
472

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
Hail18100$979,000
Tornado123012$42 million
Flash Flood8610$13 million
Thunderstorm Wind6302$312,000
Winter Storm6300$805,000
Flood3800$2.2 million
Drought2900
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2716$35,000
Heavy Snow2100
Blizzard2103$60,000
Winter Weather1667$71,000
High Wind1500$99,000
Funnel Cloud1000
Cold/Wind Chill800
Heat700
Lightning600$627,000
Strong Wind503$34,000
Excessive Heat500$35,000
Ice Storm400
Dense Fog210$10,000
Wildfire200$10,000

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 Mower County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Mower CountyEvery warning in Mower 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.