Tornado, McLean
- When
- July 28, 4:45 PM CST to 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- McLean County, 6 mi S of Mercer
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Coordinates
- 47.400, -100.720
Tornado in North Dakota, July 28, 1996
The weak tornado from earlier reports continued to travel east. It passed within 20 yards of a house in McLean Co.
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
- $75,000
- 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 BIS wrote it up.
The weak tornado from earlier reports continued to travel east. It passed within 20 yards of a house in McLean Co. All the windows on the south side of the house were blown out. The family car was picked up and spun 180 degrees around. A 1-ton pickup was moved 7 feet. Numerous shingles were torn off of the roof of the house. The occupants of the house had just gotten home and into the basement before the tornado hit. Property damage and path length/width estimated.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
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- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 28, 1996
- Hail in North Dakota, July 28, 1996
- Hail in North Dakota, July 28, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 28, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 28, 1996
- Heavy Rain in Nevada, July 28, 1996
- Hail in Colorado, July 28, 1996
- Hail in North Dakota, July 28, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 28, 1996
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Dakota, 1996Warnings in North Dakota, 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: 5561779.