Thunderstorm Wind, Sargent
- When
- July 11, 8:25 PM CST
- Where
- Sargent County
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 46.180, -103.400
Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 11, 1978
9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 10
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
9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Stark
- When
- July 11, 9:20 PM CST
- Where
- Stark County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 46.800, -102.800
Thunderstorm Wind, Stark
- When
- July 11, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Stark County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 46.880, -102.780
Thunderstorm Wind, Hettinger
- When
- July 11, 9:33 PM CST
- Where
- Hettinger County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 46.380, -102.320
Thunderstorm Wind, Stark
- When
- July 11, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Stark County
- Measured
- 70 kt (81 mph)
- Coordinates
- 46.900, -102.420
Thunderstorm Wind, Stark
- When
- July 11, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Stark County
- Measured
- 70 kt (81 mph)
- Coordinates
- 46.870, -102.530
Thunderstorm Wind, Mercer
- When
- July 11, 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Mercer County
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 47.300, -101.630
Thunderstorm Wind, McLean
- When
- July 11, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- McLean County
- Coordinates
- 47.650, -101.420
Thunderstorm Wind, Burleigh
- When
- July 11, 11:48 PM CST
- Where
- Burleigh County
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 46.850, -100.130
Tornado, Ward
- When
- July 11, 11:53 PM CST
- Where
- Ward County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 48.320, -101.730
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
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: 10083893, 10083894, 10083895, 10083896, 10083897, 10083898, 10083899, 10083900, 10083901, 10083902.