Tornado, Sioux
- When
- June 28, 8:01 PM MST
- Where
- Sioux County, 10 mi N of Ft Yates
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 15 yd
- Property damage
- $13,000
- Coordinates
- 46.230, -100.630
Tornado in North Dakota, June 28, 1996
The reported small tornado severely damaged a trailer house. width and damage amount estimated.
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
- $13,000
- 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 reported small tornado severely damaged a trailer house. Path length...width and damage amount estimated.
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:02 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
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- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, June 28, 1996
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- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 28, 1996
- Hail in Utah, June 28, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 28, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, June 28, 1996
- Hail in North Dakota, June 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, 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: 5555004.