Minnesota

Storm History: Red Lake County, Minnesota

344 episodes, 441 events since 1967

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Red Lake 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
441
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$6.7 million
Episodes
344

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
Tornado11601$4.1 million
Hail7800$5,000
Winter Storm5200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill5200
Blizzard3400
Heavy Snow2400
Drought1700
Cold/Wind Chill1500$21,000
High Wind1300
Thunderstorm Wind1000$3,000
Frost/Freeze900
Flood700$619,000
Flash Flood600
Ice Storm500$2.0 million
Heat100
Excessive Heat100
Funnel Cloud100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Red Lake County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Red Lake CountyEvery warning in Red Lake 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.