# 2000 Tornado Season Relatively Subdued 

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After two years with unusually high numbers of tornadoes in the U.S., the tornado season for this year has proven relatively quiet, with only 741 tornadoes reported, the lowest total since 1989, according to National Weather Service officials. 

Tornado figures for the first seven months of 2000, with March through July being the most active months for tornadoes, are about half of those for the same periods in 1999 and 1998, which saw 1,170 and 1,141 tornadoes, respectively. Only one of this year‘s tornadoes has produced damage stronger than F3, considered strong but not violent on the Fujita damage scale. A tornado preliminarily rated an F4 struck Granite Falls, Minn., on July 25, causing more than $20 million in damage to buildings and other property.