Tornado, Fergus
- When
- June 25, 7:55 PM MST to 8:15 PM MST
- Where
- Fergus County, 8 mi NE of Denton
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 47.400, -109.800
Tornado in Montana, June 25, 1996
A tornado touched down for about 20 minutes, damaging several buildings on a ranch 8 miles northeast of Denton.
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
- 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 TFX wrote it up.
A tornado touched down for about 20 minutes, damaging several buildings on a ranch 8 miles northeast of Denton.
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:54 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
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, June 25, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, June 25 to 28, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, June 25 to 26, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, June 25 to 27, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, June 25 to 29, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, June 25 to 30, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, June 25, 1996
- Hail in North Dakota, June 25, 1996
More
Every storm in Montana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Montana, 1996Warnings in Montana, June 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: 5550612.