Minnesota

Storm History: Wadena County, Minnesota

359 episodes, 529 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wadena 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
529
Deaths
0
Injuries
30
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
359

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
Tornado150027$9.4 million
Hail13303$843,000
Winter Storm5300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill3500
Heavy Snow3100
Drought3000
Flash Flood2400$343,000
Thunderstorm Wind1800$75,000
Cold/Wind Chill1700$21,000
Blizzard1000
High Wind1000$150,000
Flood700$110,000
Frost/Freeze600
Ice Storm300
Heat100
Excessive Heat100

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 Wadena County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wadena CountyEvery warning in Wadena 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.