Minnesota

Storm History: Sibley County, Minnesota

368 episodes, 508 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sibley 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
508
Deaths
2
Injuries
77
Damage
$59 million
Episodes
368

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
Tornado134177$54 million
Hail12310$800,000
Winter Storm6700
Flash Flood4000$70,000
Blizzard3100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1800
Thunderstorm Wind1600$15,000
Heavy Snow1500
High Wind1500
Flood1200$4.3 million
Cold/Wind Chill800
Excessive Heat800
Heat600
Winter Weather600
Heavy Rain300
Ice Storm200
Funnel Cloud200
Dense Fog200

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 Sibley County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Sibley CountyEvery warning in Sibley 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.