Tornadoes · United States · North Dakota

2000 tornadoes in North Dakota

28 tornadoes touched down in North Dakota in 2000, 23 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

1999 2001 The whole country in 2000

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in North Dakota in 2000

June 11 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 11	5:14 PM CDT	F0	Ward	4.0	40
June 11	5:51 PM CDT	F0	Bottineau	0.0	40
June 11	6:08 PM CDT	F0	McHenry	3.0	30
June 11	6:56 PM CDT	F0	Oliver	8.0	40
June 11	7:45 PM CDT	F0	Benson	0.5	20
June 11	8:05 PM CDT	F0	Benson	2.0	200

June 12 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 12	5:25 PM MDT	F0	Billings	6.0	50
June 12	6:35 PM CDT	F0	Grand Forks	0.5	30
June 12	7:03 PM CDT	F0	Grand Forks	0.5	20
June 12	7:43 PM CDT	F1	Grand Forks	0.5	200

June 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 13	4:20 PM CDT	F1	Stutsman	5.0	100		1

July 4 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
July 4	5:10 PM CDT	F1	Pierce	3.0	50
July 4	5:30 PM CDT	F0	Wells	3.0	40
July 4	10:25 PM CDT	F0	Dickey	0.0	40
July 4	10:45 PM CDT	F0	LaMoure	2.0	50

July 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 6	6:31 PM MDT	F0	Hettinger	20.0	50

July 15 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 15	5:53 PM CDT	F0	Rolette	8.0	40
July 15	6:10 PM CDT	F0	Bottineau	3.0	30
July 15	8:05 PM CDT	F0	Ramsey	1.0	50	$50,000
July 15	8:25 PM CDT	F0	Ramsey	0.5	50

August 7 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 7	7:24 PM CDT	F0	Burke	6.0	30
August 7	8:05 PM CDT	F0	Renville	6.0	60

August 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 13	12:53 AM CDT	F0	Cavalier	0.5	50			$50,000

November 1 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
November 1	1:55 PM CST	F1	Burleigh	3.0	50	2
November 1	2:33 PM CST	F1	Burleigh	22.0	100		$60,000
November 1	3:05 PM CST	F0	Burleigh	2.0	40
November 1	2:43 PM MST	F0	Morton	12.0	40
November 1	3:58 PM CST	F0	McLean	20.0	40

Nearby

Every tornado in North Dakota since 1950 Warnings in force in North Dakota The live radar over North Dakota

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.