Storm History: Richland County, North Dakota
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Richland 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
- 1,026
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 34
- Damage
- $96 million
- Episodes
- 639
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 309 | 2 | 30 | $5.5 million |
| Hail | 249 | 0 | 1 | $998,000 |
| Blizzard | 90 | 0 | 2 | $6.0 million |
| Flash Flood | 77 | 0 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 54 | 0 | 1 | $475,000 |
| Winter Storm | 49 | 0 | 0 | $2.0 million |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 46 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 42 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
| Flood | 37 | 0 | 0 | $80 million |
| High Wind | 29 | 0 | 0 | $200,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 15 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Drought | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 2 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Heat | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flood, April 5, 1997
- Flood, April 13, 1997
- Blizzard, April 5, 1997
- Flood, April 6, 2001
- Tornado, July 10, 2011
- Winter Storm, November 27, 2005
- Flood, April 1, 2006
- Tornado, May 30, 2011
- Hail, June 13, 2017
- Flash Flood, August 11, 2008
- Tornado, July 10, 2008
- Hail, July 7, 2020
- Tornado, July 2, 1955
- Tornado, June 8, 1964
- Tornado, July 1, 1973
- Flash Flood, June 11, 2008
- Tornado, June 29, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 5, 1999
- High Wind, June 11, 2008
- Flood, April 15, 2023
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, July 14, 1998
- Hail, July 4, 1994
- Tornado, August 26, 1977
- Hail, August 2, 1997
- Hail, July 16, 1986
- Hail, July 3, 1971
- Tornado, July 23, 1966
- Flash Flood, July 9, 2016
- Hail, August 29, 2013
- Hail, July 20, 1987
- Hail, July 16, 1982
- Hail, August 21, 1982
- Hail, June 26, 1980
- Hail, July 20, 1998
- Hail, August 31, 2018
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, May 29, 1953
- Tornado, June 20, 2025
- Tornado, July 2, 1955
- Tornado, July 1, 1952
- Tornado, August 7, 2010
- Tornado, September 6, 1958
- Tornado, May 5, 1964
- Tornado, July 1, 1973
- Tornado, May 20, 1974
- Tornado, July 7, 2008
- Tornado, August 27, 2016
- Tornado, June 10, 1959
- Tornado, August 25, 1960
- Tornado, June 8, 1964
- Tornado, June 19, 1975
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, June 29, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 9, 2026
- Frost/Freeze, May 19, 2026
- Frost/Freeze, May 11, 2026
- Heavy Snow, April 3, 2026
- Heavy Snow, March 11, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2026
- Blizzard, December 28, 2025
- Blizzard, December 18, 2025
- Blizzard, November 25, 2025
- Tornado, September 18, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 14, 2025
- Tornado, August 21, 2025
- Hail, June 28, 2025
- Tornado, June 20, 2025
- Hail, June 19, 2025
- Heavy Snow, April 1, 2025
- High Wind, March 15, 2025
- High Wind, February 28, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 18, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 16, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 13, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 7, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 19, 2025
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Drought, October 22, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 31, 2024
- Hail, July 14, 2024
- Tornado, July 13, 2024
- Tornado, May 23, 2024
- Flood, May 21, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 24, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2024
- Ice Storm, December 25, 2023
- Hail, August 10, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 25, 2023
- Tornado, June 7, 2023
- Flood, May 1, 2023
- Flood, April 15, 2023
- Flood, April 15, 2023
- Blizzard, April 4, 2023
- Blizzard, March 11, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2023
- Blizzard, February 21, 2023
- Blizzard, February 14, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2023
- Drought, January 1, 2023
- Blizzard, December 22, 2022
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2022
- Drought, December 1, 2022
- High Wind, November 6, 2022
- Drought, November 1, 2022
- Drought, October 18, 2022
- Hail, July 10, 2022
- Hail, July 3, 2022
- Hail, May 30, 2022
- Tornado, May 12, 2022
- Flash Flood, April 22, 2022
- High Wind, April 6, 2022
- Heavy Snow, March 30, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 22, 2022
- Blizzard, February 22, 2022
- Blizzard, February 21, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2022
- Blizzard, February 17, 2022
- Blizzard, February 10, 2022
- Heavy Snow, February 4, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 2, 2022
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 2, 2022
- Blizzard, February 1, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 25, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 19, 2022
- Blizzard, January 18, 2022
- Heavy Snow, January 13, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2022
- Blizzard, January 4, 2022
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 31, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 29, 2021
- Blizzard, December 27, 2021
- Heavy Snow, December 26, 2021
- Heavy Snow, December 17, 2021
- High Wind, December 15, 2021
- Blizzard, December 5, 2021
- High Wind, November 13, 2021
- Tornado, October 13, 2021
- Tornado, October 9, 2021
- High Wind, August 26, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 24, 2021
- Hail, July 28, 2021
- Hail, July 25, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2021
- Hail, June 11, 2021
- Tornado, June 7, 2021
- Frost/Freeze, May 28, 2021
- Hail, May 14, 2021
- Heavy Snow, March 10, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 11, 2021
- Blizzard, December 23, 2020
- Heavy Snow, October 22, 2020
- Hail, August 14, 2020
- Excessive Heat, July 24, 2020
- Tornado, July 17, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2020
- Hail, July 7, 2020
- Hail, July 5, 2020
- Tornado, June 8, 2020
- Hail, April 7, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2020
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 12, 2020
- Blizzard, February 12, 2020
- Winter Storm, January 17, 2020
- Blizzard, January 17, 2020
- High Wind, January 5, 2020
- Blizzard, December 29, 2019
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2019
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2019
- Winter Storm, November 30, 2019
- Winter Storm, October 10, 2019
- Hail, September 2, 2019
- Hail, August 17, 2019
- Hail, July 14, 2019
- Tornado, July 9, 2019
- Hail, June 27, 2019
- Hail, June 8, 2019
- Hail, May 15, 2019
- Blizzard, April 11, 2019
- Heavy Snow, April 10, 2019
- Blizzard, March 13, 2019
- Heavy Snow, March 9, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 2, 2019
- Blizzard, February 24, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2019
- Blizzard, February 7, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 7, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 6, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 28, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 27, 2019
- Blizzard, January 27, 2019
- Blizzard, January 23, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2019
- Blizzard, December 31, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 31, 2018
- Blizzard, December 27, 2018
- Heavy Snow, December 26, 2018
- Hail, August 31, 2018
- Tornado, July 4, 2018
- Tornado, June 8, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 27, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 30, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 5, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 15, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 29, 2017
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 24, 2017
- High Wind, October 26, 2017
- Tornado, September 19, 2017
- Hail, July 21, 2017
- Hail, July 17, 2017
- Hail, June 13, 2017
- High Wind, March 7, 2017
- Winter Storm, January 2, 2017
- Blizzard, December 25, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 16, 2016
- Blizzard, December 6, 2016
- Blizzard, November 18, 2016
- Hail, September 7, 2016
- Tornado, August 27, 2016
- Hail, August 18, 2016
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 10, 2016
- Excessive Heat, July 20, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 11, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 9, 2016
- Hail, June 12, 2016
- Hail, May 25, 2016
- Blizzard, February 7, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 16, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2015
- High Wind, November 18, 2015
- High Wind, October 12, 2015
- Hail, July 14, 2015
- Tornado, July 12, 2015
- Tornado, June 27, 2015
- Tornado, June 20, 2015
- Tornado, May 28, 2015
- Frost/Freeze, May 18, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 21, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2015
- Tornado, September 4, 2014
- Hail, September 1, 2014
- Tornado, July 21, 2014
- Hail, July 18, 2014
- Funnel Cloud, June 20, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2014
- Blizzard, April 1, 2014
- Blizzard, March 31, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 1, 2014
- Blizzard, February 13, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 26, 2014
- Blizzard, January 26, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2014
- Blizzard, January 22, 2014
- Blizzard, January 16, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 4, 2014
- Blizzard, January 3, 2014
- Blizzard, December 28, 2013
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 28, 2013
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 6, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 3, 2013
- Hail, August 29, 2013
- Tornado, August 6, 2013
- Tornado, July 12, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 19, 2013
- Tornado, June 4, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 14, 2013
- Blizzard, March 17, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 17, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 3, 2013
- Blizzard, February 17, 2013
- Blizzard, February 10, 2013
- Heavy Snow, January 28, 2013
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2013
- Blizzard, January 19, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2012
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Hail, August 15, 2012
- Hail, August 3, 2012
- Hail, July 22, 2012
- Drought, July 17, 2012
- Hail, June 17, 2012
- Hail, June 14, 2012
- Hail, May 26, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 2, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 28, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2012
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 18, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 22, 2011
- Flash Flood, August 15, 2011
- Flash Flood, August 1, 2011
- Hail, July 30, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2011
- Tornado, July 17, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 16, 2011
- Tornado, July 15, 2011
- Tornado, July 10, 2011
- High Wind, June 13, 2011
- Tornado, May 30, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 9, 2011
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Richland CountyEvery warning in Richland 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.