Minnesota

Storm History: Redwood County, Minnesota

412 episodes, 582 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Redwood 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
582
Deaths
2
Injuries
4
Damage
$16 million
Episodes
412

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
Tornado14713$12 million
Hail14601$25,000
Winter Storm6300
Blizzard4500
Flash Flood4300$1.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind3700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2600
High Wind1600
Flood1510$1.3 million
Heavy Snow1000
Cold/Wind Chill800
Excessive Heat800$1.0 million
Heat600
Winter Weather600
Dense Fog200
Funnel Cloud100
Ice Storm100
Strong Wind100$1,000
Frost/Freeze100$20,000

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 Redwood County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Redwood CountyEvery warning in Redwood 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.