EF0 tornado in Towner County, North Dakota

Tornado July 7, 2025 · Towner County, North Dakota

EF0

Rating

1.5 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Towner County → Cavalier County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A large dusty tornado was reported near Calio ND with no damage conveyed from any sources who witnessed it. This tornado started in Towner County and traveled 0.50 miles to the Cavalier county line, where it traveled an additional 1.04 miles. It is suspected that this was spawned out of land spout processes which likely contributed to its dusty tubelike appearance as seen on social media. UPDATE 7/22/25: Adjusted track based on Sentinel-2 satellite imagery.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms including supercells produced large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes across parts of eastern North Dakota.

Began near Newville (48.6101, -98.9801).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Grand Forks County EF0 Ramsey County EF0 Walsh County EF0 Walsh County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1282081. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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