Hail, Billings
- When
- June 18, 1:35 PM CST
- Where
- Billings County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 46.780, -103.300
Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 18, 1971
4 hail, 2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
4 hail, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Hettinger
- When
- June 18, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Hettinger County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 46.500, -102.900
Hail, Stark
- When
- June 18, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Stark County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 46.880, -102.800
Tornado, Bowman
- When
- June 18, 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Bowman County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 46.120, -103.070
Tornado, Bowman
- When
- June 18, 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Bowman County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 46.100, -103.070
Hail, Adams
- When
- June 18, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 46.000, -102.680
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 18, 1971
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 18, 1971
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, June 18, 1971
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 18, 1971
- Hail in South Dakota, June 18, 1971
- Hail in Alabama, June 18, 1971
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 1971Every state in 1971This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Dakota, 1971
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10086885, 10083233, 10086886, 10083234, 10083235, 10083450.