North Dakota

Storm History: Eddy County, North Dakota

434 episodes, 550 events since 1966

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Eddy 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
550
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$14 million
Episodes
434

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
Hail12600$1.9 million
Tornado11600$528,000
Blizzard6700$6.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill6200
Winter Storm4702$14,000
High Wind3200$4,000
Flash Flood2600$28,000
Heavy Snow2200
Cold/Wind Chill1600$5,000
Flood1000$15,000
Thunderstorm Wind700
Drought700
Frost/Freeze500
Ice Storm400$6.0 million
Heat100
Excessive Heat100
Funnel Cloud100

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 Eddy County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Eddy CountyEvery warning in Eddy 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.