Hail, Golden Valley
- When
- August 22, 12:58 AM CST
- Where
- Golden Valley County, Beach
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- $500,000
- Coordinates
- 46.940, -103.847 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, August 22, 1993
5 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- $500,000
- 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
5 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Williams
- When
- August 22, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Williams County, Appam
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 48.344, -103.480 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Tornado, Williams
- When
- August 22, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Williams County, Wildrose
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 48.344, -103.480 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Tornado, Williams
- When
- August 22, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Williams County, Wildrose
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 48.630, -103.220
Tornado, Divide
- When
- August 22, 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Divide County, Wildrose
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 12 yd
- Coordinates
- 48.800, -103.180
Tornado, Divide
- When
- August 22, 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Divide County, Hamlet
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 11 yd
- Coordinates
- 48.800, -103.180
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
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 1993Every state in 1993This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Dakota, 1993Warnings in North Dakota, August 1993
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: 10337768, 10337127, 10337128, 10337129, 10337701, 10337702.