North Dakota

Storm History: Bottineau County, North Dakota

373 episodes, 525 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bottineau 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
525
Deaths
0
Injuries
15
Damage
$20 million
Episodes
373

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
Hail13700$7.1 million
Tornado13408$3.8 million
Blizzard5505$5.9 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill3200
High Wind3100$58,000
Winter Storm3000
Flash Flood2500$1.0 million
Heavy Snow2500
Thunderstorm Wind1602$503,000
Drought1100
Cold/Wind Chill1000$75,000
Flood900$1.4 million
Winter Weather200
Dust Storm200
Heavy Rain100
Ice Storm100
Excessive Heat100
Funnel Cloud100
Wildfire100
Dense Smoke100

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 Bottineau County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bottineau CountyEvery warning in Bottineau 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.