Tornado, Wibaux
- When
- July 31, 4:55 PM MST
- Where
- Wibaux County, Carlyle
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 4 yd
- Coordinates
- 46.650, -104.030
Tornado in Montana, July 31, 1996
An (F0) tornado briefly touched down near Carlyle in Wibaux County briefly. It caused no damages.
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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS BYZ wrote it up.
An (F0) tornado briefly touched down near Carlyle in Wibaux County briefly. It caused no damages.
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 250 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:55 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail in Wyoming, July 31, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 31, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 31, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 31, 1996
- Tornado in Colorado, July 31, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 31, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, July 31, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 31, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 31, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 31, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 31, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 31, 1996
More
Every storm in Montana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Montana, 1996Warnings in Montana, July 1996
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: 5561072.