Thunderstorm Wind, Grant
- When
- August 12, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Grant County
- Coordinates
- 46.280, -101.400
Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, August 12, 1957
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Stutsman
- When
- August 12, 6:25 PM CST
- Where
- Stutsman County
- Measured
- 75 kt (86 mph)
- Coordinates
- 46.880, -98.900
Tornado, Ransom
- When
- August 12, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ransom County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 46.400, -97.800
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 12, 1957
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 12, 1957
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Maryland, August 12, 1957
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 12, 1957
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 12, 1957
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 12, 1957
- Hail in Massachusetts, August 12, 1957
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, August 12, 1957
- Damaging Wind in Montana, August 12, 1957
- Hail in Virginia, August 12, 1957
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 12, 1957
More
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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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10087425, 10087426, 10087427.