North Dakota

Storm History: Stark County, North Dakota

499 episodes, 729 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Stark 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
729
Deaths
3
Injuries
8
Damage
$37 million
Episodes
499

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
Hail20610$4.0 million
Tornado18502$23 million
Thunderstorm Wind8000$3.7 million
High Wind7100$105,000
Blizzard4906$4.5 million
Flash Flood2900$1.8 million
Heavy Snow2200
Winter Storm2100
Drought2100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1600
Cold/Wind Chill800
Winter Weather610$65,000
Lightning500$377,000
Wildfire300$25,000
Flood200$30,000
Funnel Cloud100
Excessive Heat100
Dense Fog110$100,000
Dense Smoke100
Dust Storm100

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 Stark County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Stark CountyEvery warning in Stark 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.