Tornadoes · United States · North Dakota
2026 tornadoes in North Dakota
6 tornado tracks have been surveyed in North Dakota so far in 2026, against a state average of 22.9 tornadoes a year. None of them killed anybody. These are preliminary. A rating is the surveying office's reading of the damage and can change when the survey is revised, and a track can be added, merged or withdrawn. The official record of 2026 is compiled from these surveys by the Storm Prediction Center and published in the spring of 2027.
The rating scale
Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.
EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 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.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 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.
What is preliminary here
The archive of finished years is SPC's published database. 2026 has no published database yet, so this page is built from the surveys themselves.
- The rating is the survey’s
- It is what the office that walked the damage entered in the Damage Assessment Toolkit. SPC reads the same surveys into its database and does not always arrive at the same number.
- A survey can be revised
- An office revisits a track when better evidence arrives, and ratings, path lengths and widths move. These pages follow the toolkit, so they move with it.
- One tornado can be two tracks
- A tornado that crossed two offices’ areas is often filed twice, once by each. SPC resolves those into one numbered tornado in the spring, which is why the total here is a count of surveyed tracks and not of tornadoes.
- A report is not a tornado
- The reports listed below the tracks are what reached SPC as they came in. They carry no rating, no path and no width, one tornado can be several reports, and some turn out to have been something else.
Every surveyed tornado in North Dakota in 2026
June 7 2 tornadoes
June 27 1 tornado
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 27 | 6:28 PM MDT | EF1 | Billings | 0.2 | 0 |
June 28 1 tornado
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 28 | 7:00 PM CDT | Unrated | McLean | 1.6 | 50 |
Nearby
Every tornado in North Dakota since 1950Warnings in force in North DakotaThe 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. What is preliminary here says what can still change.
Sources
NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.