North Dakota Tornado Death Was First Since April

Mobile homes and RVs were scattered to the wind during an early
morning tornado that killed a baby and injured more than
two dozen others. 

Early Tuesday morning, a tornado swept through a Watford City, North Dakota RV park, tragically killing a newborn baby and injuring more than two dozen others, some of them critically.

This was an RV park, but some of the buildings there were mobile homes that people lived in permanently. Or at least wanted to, before the tornado hit.

There's nothing good about this news, of course. Except that the death was an unusual rarity for this year.

The peak of tornado season was in May and June, though tornadoes are certainly possible any time of year. Most tornado deaths come in the late spring and early summer in the United States. This year, for only the second time on record, nobody died in the nation from tornadoes in May and June. 

Before Tuesday, the last time someone died in a tornado was on April 13, in Bossier City, Louisiana.

This is the second time in just over four years that Watford City has been struck by a dangerous tornado. In May, 2014, a twister hit an oil workers' trailer camp, injuring nine people. That tornado produced a viral video of a man filming the tornado at close range.