North Dakota

Storm History: LaMoure County, North Dakota

387 episodes, 483 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in LaMoure 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
483
Deaths
4
Injuries
7
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
387

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
Hail12001$2.8 million
Tornado10101$11 million
Blizzard7513$5.5 million
High Wind3511$210,000
Heavy Snow3300$400,000
Thunderstorm Wind2500$133,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2200
Flash Flood2100$2.0 million
Winter Storm1700
Cold/Wind Chill901
Drought600
Flood420$2.6 million
Winter Weather400$30,000
Funnel Cloud300
Lightning200
Heat100
Excessive Heat100
Wildfire100
Freezing Fog100$65,000
Dense Smoke100
Ice Storm100$1.3 million

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 LaMoure County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in LaMoure CountyEvery warning in LaMoure 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.