North Dakota

Storm History: Barnes County, North Dakota

609 episodes, 911 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Barnes County, North Dakota: 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
911
Deaths
0
Injuries
4
Damage
$39 million
Episodes
609

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
Tornado29801$19 million
Hail23800$2.1 million
Blizzard8700$6.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill5500
Winter Storm5400$252,000
Flash Flood4100$570,000
High Wind3000$500,000
Heavy Snow2700$20,000
Thunderstorm Wind2400$328,000
Cold/Wind Chill1500$50,000
Flood1203$3.9 million
Ice Storm1100$6.0 million
Drought800
Frost/Freeze500
Excessive Heat300
Lightning200$85,000
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 Barnes County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Barnes CountyEvery warning in Barnes County since 1986Every county in North Dakota

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.