Minnesota

Storm History: Nicollet County, Minnesota

351 episodes, 462 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Nicollet 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
462
Deaths
2
Injuries
10
Damage
$141 million
Episodes
351

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
Tornado120110$127 million
Hail10900$13 million
Winter Storm6500
Blizzard3800
Flash Flood2800$235,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2100
Heavy Snow1600
High Wind1400
Thunderstorm Wind1000
Cold/Wind Chill800
Flood810$500,000
Winter Weather800
Heat600
Excessive Heat600
Ice Storm200
Dense Fog200
Funnel Cloud100

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 Nicollet County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Nicollet CountyEvery warning in Nicollet 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.