NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Shakopee, MN
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Shakopee, Minnesota since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 114 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 8 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 114
- EF3 or stronger
- 8
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
23 deaths in all
What the records show for Shakopee
The highest rating among the 114 tornadoes within 25 miles is F4, reached 5 times; the most recent, on May 6, 1965, came within 11 miles. The deadliest, an F4 on May 6, 1965, killed 6 people. Of the 114, 4 had paths within 5 miles of the city centre, and 55 have come since 2000. May has had the most tornadoes, 30. The most recent tornado was on June 28, 2025. Shakopee has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 89% of the 341 Minnesota cities on this site. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 266 times since 1962, with stones up to 3 inches (tea cup size). Shakopee has more hail reports within 10 miles than 90% of the 341 Minnesota cities.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Shakopee
By decade
- 2020s19
- 2010s19
- 2000s17
- 1990s23
- 1980s13(2 EF3+)
- 1970s5
- 1960s14(4 EF3+)
- 1950s4(2 EF3+)
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 1965 | F4 | 16 mi | 17.3 mi | 6 / 158 |
| May 6, 1965 | F4 | 21 mi | 6.8 mi | 3 / 175 |
| May 6, 1965 | F4 | 11 mi | 12.3 mi | 3 / 175 |
| Jun 19, 1951 | F4 | 24 mi | 52.6 mi | 1 / 20 |
| May 6, 1965 | F4 | 5 mi | 6.9 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jul 20, 1951 | F3 | 11 mi | 11.6 mi | 5 / 40 |
| Apr 26, 1984 | F3 | 22 mi | 5.5 mi | 1 / 52 |
| Jun 14, 1981 | F3 | 13 mi | 16.2 mi | 1 / 83 |
| May 6, 1965 | F2 | 17 mi | 11.2 mi | 1 / 175 |
| Mar 29, 1998 | F2 | 21 mi | 3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 29, 1998 | F2 | 22 mi | 5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 29, 1998 | F2 | 24 mi | 17 mi | 0 / 2 |
The strongest 12 of 114, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Shakopee
The Storm Prediction Center has 266 hail reports within 10 miles of Shakopee since 1962, made on 115 separate days. Of these, 142 were 1 inch across or larger, and 18 reached 2 inches. The largest, 3 inches (tea cup size), fell on June 5, 1999. The most recent report is from September 21, 2025. May and June have the most reports, 66 each.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Shakopee
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Mpls Flying Cloud Airport, MN, 5 miles northeast of Shakopee at 907 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 84°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 24°F and 8°F. June and August are the wettest at 4.7 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 0.6 inches; the year adds up to 30.8 inches over 55 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 14 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 145 nights a year. That 30.8 inches is more than at 62 of the 124 Minnesota stations used on this site (50%). Chaska, 5 miles northwest, has its own station (Chaska 2NW, MN): 34.2 inches a year, 3.4 more than here, and a July average high of 83°F against 84°F.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 24 | 8 | 0.7 | 1 |
| Feb | 29 | 12 | 0.6 | 2 |
| Mar | 42 | 24 | 1.5 | 3 |
| Apr | 57 | 37 | 2.7 | 6 |
| May | 70 | 49 | 3.9 | 8 |
| Jun | 79 | 59 | 4.7 | 8 |
| Jul | 84 | 64 | 4.3 | 6 |
| Aug | 81 | 62 | 4.7 | 6 |
| Sep | 74 | 53 | 3.1 | 5 |
| Oct | 59 | 40 | 2.3 | 5 |
| Nov | 43 | 27 | 1.4 | 3 |
| Dec | 29 | 14 | 0.9 | 2 |
| Year | 56 | 37 | 30.8 | 55 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Mpls Flying Cloud Airport, MN (907 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Shakopee
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 263 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Shakopee: 189 thunderstorm wind reports, 41 heavy rain events, 23 flash floods, 7 floods and 3 lightning strikes. They killed 0 people and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $214.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 98 mph, on May 30, 1998. August has had the most flash floods, 9 of 23. Of the 312 Minnesota cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 286 have had fewer than Shakopee.
May 30, 1998: thunderstorm wind 4 miles from the centre of Shakopee — 2 injured, $9.2 million damage.
May 15, 1998: thunderstorm wind 10 miles from the centre of Shakopee — $170.0 million damage.
May 30, 1998: thunderstorm wind 7 miles from the centre of Shakopee — $17.6 million damage.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Shakopee's ZIP code 55379 have filed 18 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1984, and were paid $539,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 33% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 120 Minnesota cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 36 have fewer than Shakopee.
Scott County, which includes Shakopee, has been named in 16 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1965, 12 of them major disasters (by incident: 9 floods, 2 biological emergencies, 2 severe storms, 1 drought). The latest major disaster declaration was Covid-19 Pandemic, on April 7, 2020. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Scott County a Relatively Low rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Very High for strong wind; Relatively Moderate for tornadoes, hail, inland flooding and heat waves; Relatively Low for lightning. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $66.5 million a year, the 9th highest of 87 Minnesota counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $27.3 million (41%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
What counts as a pass, the distances and the sources: how this storm history is built.