North Dakota

Storm History: McLean County, North Dakota

345 episodes, 582 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in McLean 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
582
Deaths
1
Injuries
17
Damage
$18 million
Episodes
345

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 McLean 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
Hail23200$2.0 million
Tornado221011$4.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind7002$4.1 million
Flash Flood4114$2.0 million
Funnel Cloud500
Flood500$5.6 million
Lightning400$89,000
Dust Storm300
High Wind100

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 McLean County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in McLean CountyEvery warning in McLean 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.