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EF0 tornado in Walsh County, North Dakota

Tornado July 7, 2025 · Walsh County, North Dakota

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

Spotter reported a brief tornado 5mi NE of Lawton, ND with no damage reported.

The wider storm

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

Began near Fairdale (48.3750, -98.2953).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1282136. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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