Storm History: Washington County, Minnesota
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Washington 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
- 593
- Deaths
- 5
- Injuries
- 34
- Damage
- $74 million
- Episodes
- 388
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 181 | 1 | 2 | $18 million |
| Tornado | 165 | 2 | 25 | $53 million |
| Winter Storm | 71 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 42 | 0 | 3 | $300,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 26 | 0 | 0 | $2.4 million |
| Heavy Snow | 17 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 12 | 2 | 1 | |
| High Wind | 9 | 0 | 0 | $300 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 6 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
| Heat | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Dense Fog | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, May 25, 2008
- Hail, May 30, 1998
- Tornado, May 15, 1998
- Tornado, April 26, 1994
- Tornado, September 21, 2005
- Tornado, July 7, 2000
- Hail, May 19, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 26, 2000
- Tornado, July 28, 2019
- Hail, June 24, 1998
- Tornado, June 26, 1998
- Tornado, May 1, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 19, 1996
- Tornado, September 20, 2007
- Hail, May 15, 2017
- Tornado, June 10, 2012
- Tornado, May 24, 1958
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2005
- Tornado, July 10, 2011
- Hail, May 16, 2017
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, March 29, 1998
- Tornado, May 25, 2008
- Tornado, May 24, 1958
- Tornado, July 1, 1997
- Tornado, August 24, 2006
- Tornado, July 11, 2008
- Tornado, June 25, 1954
- Tornado, July 12, 1965
- Tornado, September 8, 1977
- Tornado, June 5, 1980
- Tornado, June 13, 1981
- Tornado, July 18, 1986
- Tornado, April 26, 1994
- Tornado, May 1, 2001
- Tornado, September 21, 2005
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, June 19, 2026
- Hail, April 17, 2026
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2026
- Blizzard, March 14, 2026
- Winter Weather, February 24, 2026
- Blizzard, February 18, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 4, 2026
- Blizzard, December 28, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 25, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 22, 2025
- Winter Storm, December 9, 2025
- Winter Storm, November 28, 2025
- Winter Storm, November 25, 2025
- Hail, September 21, 2025
- Hail, August 15, 2025
- Hail, July 28, 2025
- Tornado, June 28, 2025
- Hail, April 17, 2025
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2025
- Winter Weather, March 29, 2025
- Blizzard, March 4, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 17, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 14, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 7, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2025
- Winter Weather, January 11, 2025
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2024
- Hail, September 19, 2024
- Tornado, August 29, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 27, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2024
- Tornado, July 13, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2024
- Hail, June 12, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 24, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 21, 2024
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2024
- Winter Weather, October 30, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 22, 2023
- Hail, August 11, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 27, 2023
- Hail, July 19, 2023
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 31, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 5, 2023
- Winter Weather, February 27, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 18, 2023
- Winter Weather, January 11, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2023
- Blizzard, December 22, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 21, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 21, 2022
- Winter Storm, November 28, 2022
- Hail, September 20, 2022
- Excessive Heat, August 2, 2022
- Excessive Heat, June 19, 2022
- Hail, May 19, 2022
- Tornado, May 11, 2022
- Tornado, May 9, 2022
- Hail, April 12, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 22, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 10, 2021
- Hail, August 24, 2021
- Hail, August 5, 2021
- Lightning, August 5, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 13, 2021
- Blizzard, December 23, 2020
- Ice Storm, November 10, 2020
- Winter Storm, October 20, 2020
- Tornado, July 18, 2020
- Hail, June 2, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 12, 2020
- Winter Storm, February 8, 2020
- Blizzard, January 17, 2020
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2019
- Hail, September 24, 2019
- Hail, August 5, 2019
- Tornado, July 28, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2019
- Tornado, July 15, 2019
- Blizzard, April 10, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 10, 2019
- Blizzard, February 7, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 5, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 3, 2018
- Tornado, August 27, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 12, 2018
- Hail, May 24, 2018
- Blizzard, April 13, 2018
- Winter Storm, April 3, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 30, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2018
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2018
- Blizzard, January 22, 2018
- Hail, July 25, 2017
- Tornado, July 11, 2017
- Tornado, June 11, 2017
- Hail, May 16, 2017
- Hail, May 15, 2017
- Tornado, March 6, 2017
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 17, 2016
- Hail, October 17, 2016
- Flash Flood, September 20, 2016
- Flash Flood, August 29, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2016
- Excessive Heat, July 20, 2016
- Tornado, July 5, 2016
- Hail, June 12, 2016
- Winter Storm, March 23, 2016
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 16, 2016
- Tornado, July 17, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2015
- Hail, June 29, 2015
- Hail, May 3, 2015
- Winter Storm, November 9, 2014
- Tornado, July 7, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2014
- Winter Storm, April 16, 2014
- Winter Storm, April 3, 2014
- Blizzard, February 20, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 30, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2014
- Winter Storm, December 2, 2013
- Excessive Heat, August 25, 2013
- Hail, July 7, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2013
- Tornado, June 20, 2013
- Hail, May 19, 2013
- Winter Storm, May 1, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 22, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 18, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 9, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 3, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2012
- Tornado, November 10, 2012
- Hail, August 3, 2012
- Hail, June 19, 2012
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2012
- Tornado, June 10, 2012
- Hail, May 26, 2012
- Hail, May 5, 2012
- Hail, May 3, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, April 10, 2012
- Hail, April 2, 2012
- Winter Weather, December 31, 2011
- Flash Flood, August 1, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 18, 2011
- Tornado, July 10, 2011
- Tornado, July 1, 2011
- Tornado, May 22, 2011
- Tornado, May 10, 2011
- Winter Storm, March 22, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2011
- Blizzard, December 10, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 3, 2010
- Winter Storm, November 12, 2010
- High Wind, October 26, 2010
- Hail, September 21, 2010
- Tornado, August 13, 2010
- Hail, August 8, 2010
- Tornado, August 7, 2010
- Tornado, July 17, 2010
- Funnel Cloud, July 5, 2010
- Tornado, June 25, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2009
- Blizzard, December 8, 2009
- Winter Weather, October 12, 2009
- High Wind, September 27, 2009
- Tornado, August 19, 2009
- Tornado, August 8, 2009
- Hail, July 24, 2009
- Hail, July 21, 2009
- Hail, May 5, 2009
- Winter Storm, February 26, 2009
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 30, 2008
- Blizzard, December 20, 2008
- Hail, August 6, 2008
- Hail, July 25, 2008
- Tornado, July 19, 2008
- Tornado, July 11, 2008
- Hail, June 14, 2008
- Hail, May 31, 2008
- Tornado, May 25, 2008
- Heavy Snow, April 1, 2008
- Heavy Snow, March 31, 2008
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 19, 2008
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 10, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2007
- Dense Fog, November 19, 2007
- Tornado, September 20, 2007
- Flash Flood, August 28, 2007
- Flash Flood, August 13, 2007
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2007
- Hail, July 26, 2007
- Hail, July 8, 2007
- Hail, June 20, 2007
- Tornado, May 23, 2007
- High Wind, May 6, 2007
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2007
- Hail, October 3, 2006
- Funnel Cloud, September 23, 2006
- Tornado, August 24, 2006
- Heat, July 30, 2006
- Hail, May 29, 2006
- Hail, April 18, 2006
- Winter Storm, March 15, 2006
- Winter Storm, March 12, 2006
- Heavy Snow, December 29, 2005
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2005
- Flood, October 4, 2005
- Flash Flood, October 4, 2005
- Tornado, September 21, 2005
- Tornado, September 12, 2005
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2005
- Tornado, June 29, 2005
- Flash Flood, June 20, 2005
- Tornado, June 13, 2005
- Hail, June 7, 2005
- Flash Flood, June 7, 2005
- Funnel Cloud, June 5, 2005
- Winter Storm, March 18, 2005
- Blizzard, January 21, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2005
- High Wind, December 12, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 23, 2004
- Lightning, July 11, 2004
- Tornado, June 11, 2004
- Tornado, May 9, 2004
- High Wind, April 18, 2004
- Tornado, April 18, 2004
- Winter Storm, March 5, 2004
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2004
- Winter Storm, December 9, 2003
- Winter Storm, November 22, 2003
- Tornado, July 14, 2003
- Hail, July 3, 2003
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Washington CountyEvery warning in Washington 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.