Hail, Williams
- When
- August 8, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Williams County, Ray
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Property damage
- $600,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 48.350, -103.170
Hail damage to 30 homes, 150 vehicles and 30 to 100 percent crop damage.
Hail in North Dakota, August 8, 1999
1 hail, 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
- $600,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 170 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:58 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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
- Tornado in New York, August 8, 1999
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 8, 1999
- Heat and Lightning Strike in Georgia, August 8, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, August 8, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, August 8, 1999
- Hail in North Dakota, August 8, 1999
- Flooding in Missouri, August 8 to 11, 1999
- Hail in Montana, August 8, 1999
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 8, 1999
- Flash Flooding in New Mexico, August 8, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, August 8, 1999
- Funnel Cloud in New Mexico, August 8, 1999
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, August 1999
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: 5710292.