North Dakota

Storm History: Sargent County, North Dakota

471 episodes, 650 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sargent 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
650
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$61 million
Episodes
471

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
Hail16000$41 million
Tornado11900$6.7 million
Blizzard8000$6.0 million
Winter Storm5000$252,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill4800
Flash Flood3900$220,000
Heavy Snow2900$20,000
High Wind2900
Flood2800$560,000
Thunderstorm Wind2700$132,000
Cold/Wind Chill1500$5,000
Drought800
Ice Storm700$6.0 million
Frost/Freeze500
Excessive Heat300
Heat100
Lightning100$5,000
Funnel Cloud100

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 Sargent County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Sargent CountyEvery warning in Sargent 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.