Minnesota

Storm History: Renville County, Minnesota

434 episodes, 639 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Renville 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
639
Deaths
1
Injuries
6
Damage
$34 million
Episodes
434

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
Tornado19206$31 million
Hail16200$642,000
Winter Storm7200
Flash Flood4510$2.0 million
Blizzard4400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill3000
Thunderstorm Wind2500$2,000
High Wind1300
Heavy Snow1200
Flood1100$1.0 million
Winter Weather900
Cold/Wind Chill800
Excessive Heat700
Heat600
Ice Storm100
Dense Fog100
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 Renville County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Renville CountyEvery warning in Renville 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.