North Dakota

Storm History: Divide County, North Dakota

297 episodes, 372 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Divide 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
372
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$20 million
Episodes
297

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
Hail10700$580,000
Tornado5700$6.2 million
High Wind4100$100,000
Blizzard3600$12 million
Winter Storm2900$100,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2300
Drought2100
Heavy Snow1800$3,000
Thunderstorm Wind1400$150,000
Cold/Wind Chill900
Dust Storm500
Flash Flood300$5,000
Funnel Cloud200
Flood200$398,000
Winter Weather100
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 Divide County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Divide CountyEvery warning in Divide 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.