Tornado Reports
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| 17:15Z | EF0 | KBRO | TX | Cameron | Del Mar | Travelers along Padre Boulevard (State Highway 48), workers at the Port of Brownsville, and the Tower Controller at the Cameron County Airport near Bayview all witnessed a relatively long lived landspout tornado, several miles southwest of Port Isabel in the sand flats. No damage was reported from the tornado. |
| 21:03Z | EF0 | KLWX | MD | Frederick | Unionville | Numerous trees were uprooted and large limbs were snapped. The damage to trees and debris showed a convergent and weakly rotational pattern which suggests there was a weak tornado near and just north of Westvale Court. |
| 21:11Z | EF0 | KBLX | WY | Big Horn | Emblem | Several reports were received from public sources of a small tornado being viewed looking west from U.S. Highway 310 between Greybull and Lovell. |
| 22:54Z | EF0 | KFSD | MN | Lac Qui Parle | Madison | Local law enforcement officials and other spotters observed a rope-like tornado occasionally touching down southwest of Madison. A damage survey noted a path through corn fields. It also knocked down several large trees and branches, dissipating near the northwest end of the Madison golf course. |
| 23:05Z | EF0 | KFSD | MN | Lac Qui Parle | Rosen | Local law enforcement officials, spotters and chasers observed a brief tornado touchdown southwest of Bellingham. The tornado ripped off a building's porch roof. |
| 23:22Z | EF0 | KFSD | MN | Lac Qui Parle | Louisburg | Local law enforcement officials, spotters and chasers observed a brief tornado touchdown on the southern edge of Louisburg. It picked up a grain bin at the Louisburg elevator and threw it 100 yards. Some trees were also uprooted near the same area. |
| 00:44Z | EF1 | KMPX | MN | Stearns | Brooten | A National Weather Service Storm Survey determined that an EF-1 tornado touched down approximately two miles north of Brooten, and tracked to the northeast to approximately 2.5 miles west of Elrosa, Minnesota. Hundreds of trees were snapped or uprooted. Several farmsteads were damaged. Roofs were blown off of barns, and several sheds and outbuildings, including grain bins were blown down. |
| 01:00Z | EF0 | KMPX | MN | Stearns | St Augusta | A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team determined that an EF-0 tornado touched down on the east side of St. Augusta, Minnesota. Total path length was less than one-quarter of a mile, with several dozen trees blown down in a neighborhood on the east side of St. Augusta. |
| 01:34Z | EF0 | KABR | ND | Sargent | Geneseo | Richland County dispatch relayed a public report of a tornado touchdown about 1 mile south of Geneseo in Sargent County. The tornado tracked east for about 1 mile and the crossed into Richland County around 836 pm CDT where it continued for about 1 more mile before lifting around 838 pm CDT. No significant damage was reported as the tornado stayed over mainly opened fields. |
| 01:36Z | EF0 | KABR | ND | Richland | Lidgerwood | This tornado began in Sargent County at 834 pm CDTcdt, where it had an approximate 1 mile path. It continued in Richland County for about one additional mile, for a total path length of about 2 miles. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| 01:40Z | EF0 | KMVX | ND | Ransom | Lisbon Muni Arpt | Tree damage was noted along the four mile tornado path, with numerous branches snapped off. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| 02:00Z | EF0 | KBIS | ND | Burke | Bowbells | A brief tornado touched down in the open country west of Bowbells. No structures were impacted so no damage was done. This tornado was spawned from the same supercell thunderstorm that later produced another brief tornado in Burke County and a long tracked high end EF3 tornado from Burke into Ward County. See the other two tornado entries for Burke County and the tornado entry for Ward County from August 12. |
| 02:03Z | EF0 | KBIS | ND | Burke | Bowbells | A second brief tornado touched down in the open country just west of the Bowbells airport. No structures were impacted so no damage was done. This tornado was spawned from the same supercell thunderstorm that earlier produced a brief tornado in Burke County, and later produced a long tracked high end EF3 tornado from Burke into Ward County. See the other two tornado entries for Burke County and the tornado entry for Ward County from August 12. |
| 02:26Z | EF3 | KBIS | ND | Burke | Bowbells | This tornado crossed from Burke County into Ward County. Note that for roughly three miles in the vicinity of the Des Lacs River, U.S. Highway 52 runs right on the Burke and Ward County line. The tornado was right on the highway in this area. This was the location of the worst damage with this tornado. Farm property on the north side of the highway, Burke County, and on the south side of the highway, Ward County, was impacted. One fatality and one injury occurred here, in a single automobile travelling along the highway, on the county line. The vehicle came to rest in a field, nearly 200 yards off the highway, on the south side of the highway, on the east side of the river, in Ward County. See the EF3 tornado entry for Ward County from August 12.||This third tornado touched down just northeast of Bowbells, Burke County, and tracked east-southeast along U.S. Highway 52, and into Ward County where it dissipated. This EF3 tornado was spawned from the same supercell thunderstorm that earlier produced two brief and weak tornadoes in Burke County.||Meteorologists from the National Weather Service conducted a storm damage survey on Friday, August 13, 2010. Meteorologists walked through the area and spoke with numerous people affected, some of whom were eye witnesses to the event.||Significant damage occurred nearly six miles east of Bowbells, near the Des Lacs River, where U.S. Highway 52 is on the Burke and Ward County line. Three farms were impacted. The worst damage was on the Burke County side of the highway and west side of the river, where a farm home (DI 2, DOD 8) and six outbuildings were destroyed. Nineteen of 21 grain bins were also damaged or destroyed. In addition, a fifty foot air seeder connected to a cultivator, with a combined estimated weight near 60,000 pounds, was moved approximately 100 yards. Based on a lack of scratch marks in the ground it was determined that this equipment was picked up and carried through the air. A second farm, on the Ward County side of the highway, had trees in shelter belts snapped and uprooted and the chimney on the house damaged. A third house, this one on the east side of the river and the Ward County side of the highway, also had significant damage. Here, one camper was thrown into the river on the south side of the Highway 52 bridge that crosses the river, while another camper was thrown into the river and landed on the north side of the bridge, back into Burke County. The house had damage to siding and shingles.||Of all the damage surveyed the absolute worst corresponded to a high EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale. From that it was determined that peak wind speeds in the tornado were on the order of 165 mph.||One fatality and one injury occurred in an automobile in this same immediate area. A car with two occupants travelling east along U.S. Highway 52 was picked up and carried over the Des Lacs River, and came to rest 200 yards off the highway, in a field east of the river, and on the Ward County side of the highway. The driver of the vehicle was injured and the passenger was killed.||See the other two tornado entries for Burke County, and the EF3 tornado entry for Ward County from August 12 as this tornado crossed into Ward County. |
| 02:40Z | EF3 | KBIS | ND | Ward | Niobe | This tornado crossed from Burke County into Ward County. Note that for roughly three miles in the vicinity of the Des Lacs River, U.S. Highway 52 runs right on the Burke and Ward County line. The tornado was right on the highway in this area. This was the location of the worst damage with this tornado. Farm property on the north side of the highway, Burke County, and on the south side of the highway, Ward County, was impacted. One fatality and one injury occurred here, in a single automobile travelling along the highway, on the county line. The vehicle came to rest in a field, nearly 200 yards off the highway, on the south side of the highway, on the east side of the river, in Ward County. See the EF3 tornado entry for Burke County from August 12.||This third tornado touched down just northeast of Bowbells, Burke County, and tracked east-southeast along U.S. Highway 52, and into Ward County where it dissipated. This EF3 tornado was spawned from the same supercell thunderstorm that earlier produced two brief and weak tornadoes in Burke County.||Meteorologists from the National Weather Service conducted a storm damage survey on Friday, August 13, 2010. Meteorologists walked through the area and spoke with numerous people affected, some of whom were eye witnesses to the event.||Significant damage occurred nearly six miles east of Bowbells, near the Des Lacs River, where U.S. Highway 52 is on the Burke and Ward County line. Three farms were impacted. The worst damage was on the Burke County side of the highway and west side of the river, where a farm home (DI 2, DOD 8) and six outbuildings were destroyed. Nineteen of 21 grain bins were also damaged or destroyed. In addition, a fifty foot air seeder connected to a cultivator, with a combined estimated weight near 60,000 pounds, was moved approximately 100 yards. Based on a lack of scratch marks in the ground it was determined that this equipment was picked up and carried through the air. A second farm, on the Ward County side of the highway, had trees in shelter belts snapped and uprooted and the chimney on the house damaged. A third house, this one on the east side of the river and the Ward County side of the highway, also had significant damage. Here, one camper was thrown into the river on the south side of the Highway 52 bridge that crosses the river, while another camper was thrown into the river and landed on the north side of the bridge, back into Burke County. The house had damage to siding and shingles.||Of all the damage surveyed the absolute worst corresponded to a high EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale. From that it was determined that peak wind speeds in the tornado were on the order of 165 mph.||One fatality and one injury occurred in an automobile in this same immediate area. A car with two occupants travelling east along U.S. Highway 52 was picked up and carried over the Des Lacs River, and came to rest 200 yards off the highway, in a field east of the river, and on the Ward County side of the highway. The driver of the vehicle was injured and the passenger was killed.||See the other three tornado entries for Burke County from this event on August 12. This tornado crossed into Ward County from Burke. |
| 08:04Z | EF1 | KMPX | MN | Dakota | Farmington | A Storm Survey determined that an EF-1 tornado tracked to the northeast from three miles northwest of Farmington, to 3.3 miles north of Farmington, Minnesota. ||The damage consisted of the following; ||A few homes had large sections of roof structure removed. Numerous homes had significant roof damage, with loss of vinyl or metal siding. In addtion, numerous garage doors had collapsed or were pushed inward. One home had their entire garage shifted off its foundation by over 5 inches. Another home had their entire garage collapse, only leaving the main home intact. Due to several structures that had their foundations shifted and walls completely blown down, this tornado was rated a high end EF-1, which is approximately 105 mph. Most of the tornado damage was high end EF-0, or low end EF-1, or approximately 70 to 90 mph. Hundreds of trees were either uprooted or blown down. Several trees had diameters in excess of 30 inches. |
Storm reports are derived from "The Storm Events Database" (National Centers for Environmental Information) and/or "Past Storm Reports" (Storm Prediction Center).