Minnesota

Storm History: Waseca County, Minnesota

361 episodes, 492 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Waseca 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
492
Deaths
6
Injuries
28
Damage
$85 million
Episodes
361

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
Tornado141625$79 million
Hail10300$205,000
Winter Storm6300
Flash Flood4800$1.0 million
Blizzard3300$25,000
Thunderstorm Wind2200$4.3 million
Heavy Snow1900
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1600
High Wind1500$26,000
Cold/Wind Chill800
Heat600
Winter Weather500
Excessive Heat500
Flood300
Ice Storm200
Dense Fog100
Heavy Rain100
Wildfire103

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 Waseca County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Waseca CountyEvery warning in Waseca 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.