North Dakota

Storm History: Ramsey County, North Dakota

566 episodes, 815 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ramsey 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
815
Deaths
0
Injuries
18
Damage
$161 million
Episodes
566

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
Tornado215013$12 million
Hail18704$18 million
Blizzard7000$6.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill6400
Winter Storm4800$14,000
Flood4601$119 million
High Wind4200$179,000
Flash Flood4000$263,000
Heavy Snow3300
Thunderstorm Wind3200$46,000
Cold/Wind Chill1600$50,000
Drought1000
Frost/Freeze700
Ice Storm400$6.4 million
Heat100

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 Ramsey County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Ramsey CountyEvery warning in Ramsey 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.