Tornado, Wells
- When
- July 4, 4:30 PM CST to 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Wells County, 3 mi S of Fessenden
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 47.600, -99.617
Damage to trees and grain bins.
Tornado in North Dakota, July 4, 2000
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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 Bismarck radar (KBIS), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:28 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
- Heat in Texas, July 4, 2000
- Heat in Texas, July 4, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Maine, July 4, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 4, 2000
- Hurricane in Guam, July 4, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 4, 2000
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, July 4, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, July 4, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Maine, July 4, 2000
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 4, 2000
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, July 4, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 4, 2000
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Dakota, 2000Warnings in North Dakota, 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: 5164458.