North Dakota

Storm History: Burke County, North Dakota

343 episodes, 419 events since 1969

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Burke 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
419
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
343

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
Hail12100$1.7 million
Tornado7100$1.9 million
Blizzard4201$8.1 million
High Wind4100$20,000
Winter Storm3000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2800
Heavy Snow2200
Drought2100
Thunderstorm Wind1100$20,000
Cold/Wind Chill900
Lightning600$341,000
Flash Flood600$80,000
Dust Storm300
Flood200$105,000
Winter Weather100
Ice Storm100
Excessive Heat100
Wildfire100
Dense Fog100$750,000
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 Burke County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Burke CountyEvery warning in Burke 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.