The Brisses were in the path of a tornado that traveled north and killed three residents near Enderlin, which is about 55 miles southwest of Fargo. Authorities have not identified those who died.

Sixty-eight years ago, on this date in 1957, North Dakota’s most famous and deadliest tornado tore through the state’s most ...

June 20 marks 68 years since a massive tornado, which has since been commonly referred to as the “Fargo Tornado” carved a ...

Despite the destruction and death toll, this ended up being one of the most historically significant tornadoes for the ...

and the Wells Fargo building. The Great Plains/Metro Tower is the second-tallest building to have survived a direct hit from an F5 tornado. Related: Caprock Chronicles: F5 tornado takes Lubbock by ...

After the F Scale’s introduction, meteorologists came to realize that F3, F4, and F5 tornadoes account for only about ... began to soar following his studies of five tornadoes that developed in the ...

The furthest east F5 tornado was in Niles, Ohio in 1985. The southernmost was the monster and slow-moving Jarrell, Texas tornado in May 1997. The northernmost was in Fargo, ND in 1957. Other ...

Fujita, who died in 1998, is most recognizable as the “F” in the F0 to F5 scale, which categorizes the strength ... One of his earliest projects analyzed a devastating tornado that struck Fargo, North ...

From the devastating Fargo tornado of June 20 ... The Story of a Killer Tornado) and Mark Levine (F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century)—who ...

Much attention is paid to the infamous Fargo tornado disaster in 1957 ... meteorologists to retro-grade the Fergus Falls tornado to F5, the strongest category.

It’s 60 miles north of the border with the United States, or a little more than 200 miles north of Fargo ... is still Canada’s strongest tornado on record. F5 winds were suspected to be ...