Tornado, Richland
- When
- August 15, 2:45 PM CST
- Where
- Richland County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 13 yd
- Coordinates
- 46.270, -96.830
Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, August 15, 1987
2 hail, 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
- None recorded
- 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 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Cass
- When
- August 15, 4:02 PM CST
- Where
- Cass County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 47.150, -96.950
Hail, Barnes
- When
- August 15, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Barnes County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 46.900, -98.000
What these are
- 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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, August 15, 1987
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, August 15, 1987
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 15, 1987
- Hail in Utah, August 15, 1987
- Hail in Wyoming, August 15, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 15, 1987
- Hail in Nebraska, August 15, 1987
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 15, 1987
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 1987Every state in 1987This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Dakota, 1987Warnings in North Dakota, August 1987
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: 10086268, 10086269, 10086270.