Minnesota

Storm History: Saint Louis County, Minnesota

934 episodes, 2,311 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Saint Louis 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
2,311
Deaths
42
Injuries
111
Damage
$129 million
Episodes
934

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
Hail65617$50 million
Heavy Snow330710$5,000
Thunderstorm Wind25716$181,000
Tornado238345$6.8 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill18021
Flash Flood16800$2.2 million
Drought15600
Blizzard6410$5.5 million
Winter Storm5612$9.5 million
Cold/Wind Chill52915
Ice Storm4200$6.0 million
Lightning19111$1.5 million
Flood1900$1.6 million
Winter Weather1846
High Wind1112$5,000
Wildfire800$27 million
Lake-Effect Snow800
Rip Current826
Lakeshore Flood600$19 million
Strong Wind500
Heat350
Frost/Freeze300
Excessive Heat210
Dense Fog110
High Surf120

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 Saint Louis County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Saint Louis CountyEvery warning in Saint Louis 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.