North Dakota

Storm History: Cass County, North Dakota

750 episodes, 1,498 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cass 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
1,498
Deaths
19
Injuries
128
Damage
$734 million
Episodes
750

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.

Open the live radar over Cass County

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
Tornado51813111$201 million
Hail42802$35 million
Flash Flood12512$127 million
Blizzard10400$6.0 million
Winter Storm5300$252,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill5210
Flood4530$355 million
Thunderstorm Wind4202$64,000
High Wind41111$3.2 million
Heavy Snow3800$45,000
Cold/Wind Chill1500$50,000
Drought1100
Ice Storm1000$6.0 million
Frost/Freeze500
Winter Weather400
Excessive Heat300
Funnel Cloud200
Heat100
Dust Storm100

The deadliest

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 Cass County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cass CountyEvery warning in Cass 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.