Severe Weather Summary from August 27th, 2016

Tornadoes:

A National Weather Service Storm Damage Assessment Team has reviewed damage from two tornadoes which occurred across portions of southeast Grand Forks County and one tornado across eastern Traill County. These tornadoes resulted from storms in the afternoon and early evening of August 27, 2016. There were no injuries or fatalities from these tornadoes.

Based on video and photographic evidence, plus multiple eyewitness accounts, it is clear that two separate and distinct tornadoes occurred from the same parent supercell thunderstorm in southeast Grand Forks County. The first was a brief touchdown in far southeast Arvilla township and the second was a much larger and longer tracking tornado across northern Pleasant View township.

A third tornado occurred nearly an hour and a half later in east central Traill County. This tornado crossed the Interstate 29 corridor and produced severe damage at two farmsteads and at the Taft elevator complex.