North Dakota

Storm History: Pembina County, North Dakota

506 episodes, 789 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pembina 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
789
Deaths
2
Injuries
11
Damage
$56 million
Episodes
506

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
Tornado21705$17 million
Hail14804$125,000
Blizzard10020$6.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill6000
Flash Flood5400$1.2 million
Winter Storm4600$2,000
Flood4200$25 million
Heavy Snow2700
High Wind2501$60,000
Thunderstorm Wind1900$148,000
Cold/Wind Chill1700$50,000
Drought1300
Frost/Freeze900
Ice Storm600$6.4 million
Funnel Cloud300
Heat100
Lightning101
Excessive Heat100

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 Pembina County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pembina CountyEvery warning in Pembina 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.