The Storm Prediction Center has confirmed four tornadoes touched down in north-central North Dakota — near Wolford, Knox, Maddock and Bremen — completing its post-event survey of the storm system that swept the northern Plains over the past two days.
Over that same 48-hour window, the Storm Prediction Center’s national storm-reports log also recorded 18 large hail reports and 123 damaging wind reports, alongside the four confirmed North Dakota tornadoes. All four tornado reports in the period came from North Dakota, the agency’s data show, consistent with the outbreak that also produced a fifth confirmed tornado a day earlier in Shavano Park, Texas, as the same system moved north out of the state’s Hill Country.
The confirmed North Dakota touchdowns are documented at specific points: 6 miles south of Wolford, 1 mile northwest of Knox, 4 miles west of Maddock and 8 miles south-southeast of Bremen. North Dakota’s National Weather Service offices had four confirmed-tornado statements on record for those locations.
With the survey work complete, the tornado threat from this system has passed. The Storm Prediction Center’s report now stands as the record of a two-day outbreak that produced five confirmed tornadoes — four in North Dakota and one in Texas — plus the 18 hail reports and 123 wind reports logged nationally over the same period. The agency’s data does not specify which states outside North Dakota accounted for the hail and wind reports.
The tally illustrates how severe weather outbreaks can leave a footprint well beyond the tornadoes that draw the most attention: nationwide wind reports outnumbered confirmed tornadoes by more than 30 to 1 in the same window. As of the latest Storm Prediction Center update, no new tornado watches or warnings were tied to the North Dakota system, and its severe weather threat for the region has ended.
The confirmations close out the system that began over Texas’s Hill Country and tracked north into the Dakotas, leaving behind a documented trail of tornado, hail and wind damage across both states.