Minnesota

Storm History: Wilkin County, Minnesota

483 episodes, 649 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wilkin 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
649
Deaths
0
Injuries
7
Damage
$49 million
Episodes
483

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
Tornado14607$2.0 million
Hail11500$895,000
Blizzard7700
Flash Flood5300$350,000
Winter Storm4900$1.3 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill4200
Heavy Snow3700
Thunderstorm Wind3600$121,000
High Wind3300$350,000
Flood2700$44 million
Cold/Wind Chill1500$21,000
Drought700
Ice Storm400
Excessive Heat300
Frost/Freeze300
Funnel Cloud100
Winter Weather100

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 Wilkin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wilkin CountyEvery warning in Wilkin 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.