Storm History: Towner County, North Dakota
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 124 | 0 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| Hail | 110 | 0 | 0 | $211,000 |
| Blizzard | 67 | 0 | 0 | $6.0 million |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 63 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 42 | 0 | 0 | $14,000 |
| Flash Flood | 30 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 28 | 0 | 0 | $4,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 21 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 17 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Flood | 14 | 0 | 0 | $414,000 |
| Drought | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 11 | 0 | 0 | $500,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 4 | 0 | 0 | $6.4 million |
| Heat | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Ice Storm, April 4, 1997
- Blizzard, April 5, 1997
- Tornado, June 23, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 1996
- Ice Storm, May 11, 2004
- Flood, April 1, 2006
- Tornado, July 7, 2008
- Hail, July 28, 2008
- Tornado, August 3, 2016
- Tornado, June 23, 1994
- Flood, March 30, 2017
- Flood, April 1, 2017
- Hail, June 18, 1996
- Hail, August 2, 2008
- Tornado, August 10, 2010
- Winter Storm, November 6, 2000
- Hail, June 29, 2019
- Tornado, August 8, 2002
- Cold/Wind Chill, March 8, 2003
- Flood, March 22, 2009
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2006
- Flash Flood, August 31, 2002
- Hail, July 3, 1986
- Hail, July 16, 1985
- Hail, August 1, 1979
- Hail, July 17, 2015
- Flash Flood, August 27, 2002
- Hail, July 20, 1987
- Hail, August 4, 2006
- Hail, June 2, 2017
- Hail, June 11, 2001
- Hail, June 2, 2026
- Hail, July 13, 2020
- Hail, July 5, 2017
- Hail, July 19, 2012
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, June 2, 2026
- Frost/Freeze, May 19, 2026
- Frost/Freeze, May 10, 2026
- Heavy Snow, February 18, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2026
- Blizzard, December 18, 2025
- Flash Flood, September 11, 2025
- Hail, August 7, 2025
- Tornado, July 7, 2025
- High Wind, February 28, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 18, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 16, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 19, 2025
- Blizzard, January 17, 2025
- Heavy Snow, December 18, 2024
- Blizzard, November 20, 2024
- High Wind, October 5, 2024
- High Wind, June 5, 2024
- High Wind, May 18, 2024
- Drought, April 1, 2024
- Drought, March 1, 2024
- Drought, February 1, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2024
- Blizzard, January 13, 2024
- Drought, January 1, 2024
- Drought, December 5, 2023
- Drought, November 1, 2023
- Heavy Snow, October 25, 2023
- Drought, October 1, 2023
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Hail, June 27, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 5, 2023
- Blizzard, April 4, 2023
- Blizzard, March 11, 2023
- Blizzard, February 21, 2023
- Blizzard, February 14, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2023
- Blizzard, December 22, 2022
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 20, 2022
- Blizzard, November 9, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 23, 2022
- Hail, August 17, 2022
- Hail, July 18, 2022
- Hail, July 10, 2022
- High Wind, May 13, 2022
- Heavy Snow, April 17, 2022
- Blizzard, April 11, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 22, 2022
- Blizzard, February 17, 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 8, 2022
- Blizzard, January 8, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2022
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 31, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 29, 2021
- Heavy Snow, December 26, 2021
- Heavy Snow, December 4, 2021
- Tornado, August 9, 2021
- Hail, July 19, 2021
- Hail, June 5, 2021
- Frost/Freeze, May 28, 2021
- Frost/Freeze, May 27, 2021
- High Wind, March 29, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 11, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 6, 2021
- High Wind, January 20, 2021
- Tornado, July 17, 2020
- Hail, July 13, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2020
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 12, 2020
- Blizzard, January 17, 2020
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 15, 2020
- Blizzard, October 11, 2019
- Winter Storm, October 10, 2019
- Tornado, September 20, 2019
- Tornado, July 8, 2019
- Hail, June 29, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 2, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 24, 2019
- Blizzard, February 24, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 7, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 3, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 28, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 27, 2019
- Blizzard, January 27, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 31, 2018
- Blizzard, December 27, 2018
- Heavy Snow, December 26, 2018
- Hail, September 6, 2018
- Hail, July 14, 2018
- Tornado, June 29, 2018
- Tornado, June 14, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 5, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 15, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 12, 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
- Hail, July 29, 2017
- Hail, July 19, 2017
- Tornado, July 11, 2017
- Hail, July 5, 2017
- Hail, June 2, 2017
- Flood, April 1, 2017
- Flood, March 30, 2017
- High Wind, March 7, 2017
- Blizzard, March 6, 2017
- Blizzard, January 12, 2017
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 12, 2017
- Winter Storm, January 2, 2017
- Blizzard, December 25, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 16, 2016
- Blizzard, December 7, 2016
- Blizzard, December 6, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 5, 2016
- Tornado, August 3, 2016
- Hail, July 20, 2016
- Hail, June 3, 2016
- High Wind, February 7, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 16, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2015
- High Wind, November 18, 2015
- High Wind, October 12, 2015
- Tornado, July 23, 2015
- Hail, July 17, 2015
- Tornado, June 20, 2015
- Frost/Freeze, May 18, 2015
- High Wind, May 17, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 21, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 3, 2015
- Heavy Snow, January 2, 2015
- Hail, June 8, 2014
- Hail, June 4, 2014
- Blizzard, March 31, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 1, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 28, 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
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2013
- Hail, July 6, 2013
- Hail, June 23, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 22, 2013
- High Wind, May 14, 2013
- Flood, May 1, 2013
- Flood, April 27, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 14, 2013
- Blizzard, March 17, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 17, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 3, 2013
- Blizzard, February 17, 2013
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 1, 2013
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 31, 2013
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2013
- Blizzard, January 19, 2013
- Blizzard, January 11, 2013
- Winter Storm, November 10, 2012
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Tornado, June 20, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2012
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 11, 2012
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 10, 2012
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 18, 2012
- Hail, September 1, 2011
- Hail, July 20, 2011
- Tornado, July 4, 2011
- Frost/Freeze, May 26, 2011
- Flood, April 10, 2011
- Blizzard, March 11, 2011
- High Wind, February 13, 2011
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 8, 2011
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 29, 2010
- Heavy Snow, December 19, 2010
- Heavy Snow, December 15, 2010
- Heavy Snow, November 24, 2010
- Blizzard, October 26, 2010
- Tornado, August 10, 2010
- Tornado, August 1, 2010
- Tornado, July 26, 2010
- Tornado, June 24, 2010
- Hail, June 8, 2010
- High Wind, May 25, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 13, 2010
- Blizzard, January 25, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 22, 2010
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 7, 2010
- Blizzard, December 24, 2009
- Heavy Snow, December 23, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 14, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 13, 2009
- Hail, August 24, 2009
- Hail, July 19, 2009
- Tornado, June 27, 2009
- Tornado, June 26, 2009
- Flood, April 6, 2009
- Flood, March 22, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 11, 2009
- Ice Storm, February 8, 2009
- High Wind, January 31, 2009
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 13, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 3, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 20, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2008
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 15, 2008
- Blizzard, December 13, 2008
- Winter Storm, November 6, 2008
- High Wind, October 26, 2008
- Hail, August 2, 2008
- Hail, July 28, 2008
- Tornado, July 7, 2008
- Tornado, June 23, 2008
- Frost/Freeze, May 27, 2008
- Frost/Freeze, May 21, 2008
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 19, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 13, 2008
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 9, 2008
- Blizzard, February 8, 2008
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2008
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 17, 2008
- Heavy Snow, December 4, 2007
- High Wind, November 13, 2007
- Tornado, August 13, 2007
- Hail, July 31, 2007
- Tornado, July 15, 2007
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2007
- Hail, June 12, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2007
- Heavy Snow, March 15, 2007
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2007
- Drought, March 1, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 27, 2007
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.