Hail, Richland
- When
- August 29, 3:48 PM CST
- Where
- Richland County, 4 mi NW of Fairmount
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 46.083, -96.667
Hail in North Dakota, August 29, 2001
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
- None recorded
- 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 29, 12:20 PM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 12:20 PM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 120 PM CDT WED AUG 29 2001 ...MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGES CENTER ON EARLY CONVECTIVE CHANCES WITH FROPA AND THEN EXTENT OF COOL DOWN IN WAKE OF FRONT... .CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL OVERVIEW... 18Z MSAS ANALYSIS DEPICTED LOW PRESSURE OVER EASTERN MANITOBA PROVINCE WITH ASSOCIATED PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH SLICING SOUTH INTO EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA WITH PARENT COLD FRONT INTO CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. STRONG PRESSURE FALLS STILL EVIDENT OVER CENTRAL MINNESOTA SUGGESTING FRONT SHOULD CONTINUE TO MAKE STEADY EASTWARD PROGRESS THIS AFTERNOON. ATTM BEST BREEDING GROUND FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT IS ACROSS SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA WHERE STRONGEST MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY IS EVIDENT. ...FORECAST DETAILS... EXTRAPOLATION OF FRONT...PER SATELLITE...RADAR AND OBSERVATIONAL SITES SUGGESTS BOUNDARY SHOULD CLEAR VALLEY BY LATE AFTERNOON AND THEN MINNESOTA LATER THIS EVENING. DESPITE QUIET RADAR ATTM FEEL ENOUGH LOW-LEVEL FORCING AND INSTABILITY PRESENT TO FIRE STORMS OFF AS AFTERNOON WEARS ON WITH THREAT LINGERING INTO THIS EVENING ACROSS MINNESOTA. SEE SWODY1 DISCUSSION FOR FURTHER DETAILS ON THIS MATTER. IN WAKE OF FRONT GOOD PUNCH OF CAA SLATED FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY WITH LOW POP THREAT STILL JUSTIFIED ESPECIALLY EAST OF THE VALLEY AS LINGERING CYCLONIC CURVATURE AND COLD POOL ALOFT GENERATE SHOWER CHANCES. ON FRIDAY HEART OF HIGH IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE REGION WITH NOTHING MORE THAN SOME FAIR WEATHER CU ALONG WITH CONTINUATION OF BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. .EXTENDED... A MORE STABLE PATTERN SETTING UP FOR THE EXTENDED PERIODS AS UPPER LEVEL FLOW FLATTENS OUT AND BECOMES ZONAL. MODELS INDICATE A COUPLE OF BOUNDARIES TRY TO MOVE THROUGH THE UPPER MIDWEST ON SUNDAY AND TUESDAY. THUS WILL KEEP MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY...BUT WILL KEEP TUESDAY DRY FOR NOW DUE TO LACK OF PERSISTENCE WITH THE LATTER FEATURE. WITH THE EXCEPTION FOR SATURDAY...TEMPS WILL BE NEAR SEASONAL AVERAGES. .FGF...NONE BERG/DONAVON
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:46 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
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- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 29, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 29 to 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 29, 2001
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, August 2001
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: 5264822.