Minnesota

Storm History: Nobles County, Minnesota

624 episodes, 812 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Nobles 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
812
Deaths
6
Injuries
19
Damage
$97 million
Episodes
624

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
Hail21200$3.6 million
Tornado10812$31 million
Winter Weather85410
Thunderstorm Wind7300$2.9 million
Flash Flood5800$55,000
Winter Storm5500$25 million
Blizzard5406$972,000
High Wind3401$287,000
Drought3100$7.7 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2400
Heavy Snow2000$5,000
Excessive Heat1600$10,000
Cold/Wind Chill1300
Flood800$23 million
Ice Storm700$2.6 million
Strong Wind410
Lightning300$7,000
Funnel Cloud200
Heat200
Wildfire200
Heavy Rain100

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 Nobles County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Nobles CountyEvery warning in Nobles 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.