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F2 tornado in Steele County, North Dakota

Tornado July 18, 2004 · Steele County, North Dakota

Rating

3.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado tore the roof off a barn and impaled a tree branch in the wooden door of a granary. Many trees were damaged and a high voltage power tower was knocked over. The tornado tracked mainly along the Goose River (about 4 miles west of Hatton) to about 4 miles south-southwest of Hatton.

Began near Finley (47.0667, -97.7000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F4 Barnes County F2 Cass County F1 Grand Forks County F0 Cass County F0 Grand Forks County F0 Traill County F0 Barnes County F0 Cass County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5415759. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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