North Dakota

Storm History: Towner County, North Dakota

430 episodes, 552 events since 1964

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Towner 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
552
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$15 million
Episodes
430

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
Tornado12400$1.1 million
Hail11000$211,000
Blizzard6700$6.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill6300
Winter Storm4200$14,000
Flash Flood3000
High Wind2800$4,000
Heavy Snow2100
Cold/Wind Chill1700$5,000
Flood1400$414,000
Drought1200
Thunderstorm Wind1100$500,000
Frost/Freeze800
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 Towner County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Towner CountyEvery warning in Towner 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.