Tornado, Fergus
- When
- July 8, 5:25 PM MST
- Where
- Fergus County, 3 mi W of Coffee Creek
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 47.350, -110.150
This weak tornado was in a remote area and caused no damage.
Tornado in Montana, July 8, 2000
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:23 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
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, July 8, 2000
- Heat in Mississippi, July 8, 2000
- Heat in Arkansas, July 8, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 8, 2000
- Tornado and Flooding in Minnesota, July 8 to 9, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 8 to 9, 2000
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, July 8 to 9, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 8, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 8, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, July 8, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 8, 2000
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, July 8, 2000
More
Every storm in Montana in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Montana, 2000Warnings in Montana, July 2000
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: 5153608.