Minnesota

Storm History: Ramsey County, Minnesota

359 episodes, 629 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ramsey 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
629
Deaths
11
Injuries
399
Damage
$264 million
Episodes
359

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
Hail20030$5.0 million
Tornado1492179$254 million
Flash Flood8702$2.9 million
Winter Storm6600
Thunderstorm Wind2900$132,000
Blizzard1710
Heavy Snow1200
Winter Weather1200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1222
High Wind1000$20,000
Cold/Wind Chill930
Excessive Heat90216
Heat600
Flood500$1.9 million
Ice Storm200
Dense Fog200
Heavy Rain100
Strong Wind100

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 Ramsey County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Ramsey CountyEvery warning in Ramsey 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.