Tornadoes · United States · North Dakota

2006 tornadoes in North Dakota

21 tornadoes touched down in North Dakota in 2006, 8 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2005 2007 The whole country in 2006

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 2006

April 28 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
April 28	3:40 PM CDT	F0	LaMoure	0.4	25
April 28	4:04 PM CDT	F0	LaMoure	0.5	60
April 28	4:35 PM CDT	F0	Sargent	2.5	50

May 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 7	10:40 PM CDT	F0	Cass	0.2	25

June 5 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 5	7:35 PM CDT	F0	Cass	0.4	25
June 5	8:41 PM CDT	F0	Richland	2.0	25

June 23 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 23	12:47 PM CDT	F0	LaMoure	3.0	70
June 23	1:05 PM CDT	F0	LaMoure	1.0	40
June 23	1:52 PM CDT	F0	Rolette	6.0	25
June 23	2:14 PM CDT	F0	Towner	0.5	25

July 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 30	11:08 PM CDT	F0	Pembina	0.2	25			$1,000

August 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 4	8:21 PM CDT	F0	McIntosh	0.1	40

August 5 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
August 5	7:10 PM CDT	F0	Ransom	3.0	25
August 5	7:33 PM CDT	F1	Cass	3.0	50
August 5	8:33 PM CDT	F0	Richland	5.0	25

August 10 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 10	3:50 PM CDT	F0	Sioux	2.0	70
August 10	4:18 PM CDT	F0	Cass	25.0	0

August 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 20	5:50 PM CDT	F0	Dickey	0.3	35

August 24 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
August 24	1:01 PM CDT	F0	Morton	0.8	50	$40,000
August 24	1:55 PM CDT	F2	McLean	2.0	90	$200,000
August 24	3:03 PM CDT	F0	Kidder	1.0	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.