Tornado, Kidder
- When
- July 3, 1:50 PM CST
- Where
- Kidder County, Bismarck
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 46.800, -99.800
Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, July 3, 1994
2 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- $1.0 million
- Events
- 3
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
2 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Renville
- When
- July 3, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Renville County to Kenmare
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- $500,000
- Coordinates
- 48.719, -101.658 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Large hail damaged buildings, cars, and crops. Crop damage was estimated at 50 to 100 percent in some areas.
Hail, Steele
- When
- July 3, 11:15 PM CST
- Where
- Steele County, Ne Hope
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Crop damage
- $500,000
- Coordinates
- 47.456, -97.725 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
An area six miles wide and 13 miles long was heavily damaged by the hail. Another area six miles long and two miles wide had 100% crop loss.
What these are
- 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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 3, 1994
- Tornado and Hail in New Jersey, July 3, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 3, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 3, 1994
- Hail in West Virginia, July 3, 1994
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 3, 1994
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 3, 1994
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 3, 1994
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, July 3, 1994
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 1994Every state in 1994This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Dakota, 1994Warnings in North Dakota, July 1994
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: 10337916, 10337850, 10337079.