Name: Hail in North Dakota, August 7, 2001
Start: 2001-08-07T20:55
End: 2001-08-07T20:55
Location: North Dakota

Where it happened

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Tornadoes
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Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 7, 2:20 PM CST, 6 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:20 PM CST, 6 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
320 PM CDT TUE AUG 7 2001

FORECAST PROBLEMS TODAY ARE HIGH HEAT INDEX...THE CAP STRENGTH...AND
POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AS ADVANCING COLD FRONT PUSHES
INTO THE STATE.

HEAT INDICIES ARE IN THE 100 TO 105 RANGE OVER MUCH OF CNTRL ND THIS
AFTN. WL KEEP HEAT ADVISORY GOING THIS EVE FOR MINOT...AND FOR
TONIGHT AT BIS AND JMS. COLD FRONT WL NOT GET TO BIS UNTIL
MORNING...SO HIGH DWPTS AND LOWS IN THE 70S WL CONTINUE FOR BIS AND
JMS.

COMPLICATED WX SCENARIO FOR TSTMS TONIGHT THROUGH WED NIGHT. MID
LEVEL CAP IN PLACE WI H7 TEMPS OF 14 THIS MORNING...AND FCST
SOUNDINGS FOR THIS AFTN AND EVE INDICATED STRENGTHENING OF CAP.
CONVECTIVE SFC TEMPS ARE 103 TO 107F. SFC LOWS THIS AFTN IN SERN MT
AND SRN SASK...AND EAST-WEST SFC BOUNDARY ACROSS ND WITH SLY/SELY
WINDS AND DWPTS N THE 70S ACROSS SRN ND AND ELY/SELY WINDS AND DWPTS
ON THE MID TO UPPER 60S ACROSS THE NORTH. TSTMS HAVE FORMED IN NERN
MT AT MOISTURE CONVERGENCE BOUNDARY IN VCNTY OF SFC LOW. TSTMS HAVE
MOVED INTO NWRN ND...AND WERE HIGH BASED. DO NOT SEEM TO BE PUNCHING
THROUGH THE CAP ATTM. ALSO SOME ACTIVITY ALONG E-W SFC BOUNDARY
ACROSS ND. ALONG WITH THIS ACTIVITY...POSSIBILITY OF TSTMS IN WY
MOVING INTO WRN ND WITH MODELS ADVERTISING H500 VORT ENERGY MOVING
NWD SLOWLY TONIGHT. ANOTHER LIFTING SOURCE IS THE SFC COLD FRONT
PROGGED TO MOVE SEWD ACROSS STA...BEGINNING AROUND 06Z IN THE NW
CORNER...AND BEING IN VCNTY OF BIS AROUND 12 WED MORNING. THINK
MODELS ARE PUTTING THE MOST PCPN IN NRN/NERN ND TO MANITOBA AND NRN
MINNESOTA ALONG E-W WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT SHOULD MOVE NWD THIS
EVE. H850 AND H700 OMEGA INDICATES LOTS OF UPWARD MOTION FROM 06Z TO
12Z IN THIS AREA. WL MENTION SVR TSTM POSSIBILITIES.

FOR WED...COLD FRONT MOVES OUT OF CWA BY 18Z WED...BUT CAPES WELL
ABOVE 1000 AND LIS WELL BELOW ZERO ON THE NW SIDE OF THE FRONT.
H700-500 DIVERGENCE OF Q SUGGESTS LOTS OF UPWARD MOTION/INSTABILITY
TO WARRANT KEEPING GOOD CHC TSTMS SRN COUNTIES ON WED...EVEN INTO
WED EVE. THEN CLEARING WED NIGHT WITH DRY CONDITIONS THU AND RELIEF
FROM HEAT.

WL PUT BEST CHC PCPN TONIGHT IN THE WEST AND NORTH...AND IN THE
SOUTH ON WED/WED NIGHT.

FOR THE EXTENDED PERIOD...H500 NWLY FLOW KEEPS DRY SFC HIGHS MOVING
THROUGH STA WITH TEMPS IN THE 70S AND 80S.

.BIS...HEAT ADVISORY...MOT THIS EVE
                       BIS AND JMS TONIGHT

VINING

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 4:12 PM CST, 4 hours 43 minutes before

NDZ001-009-017-080113-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
513 PM CDT (413 PM MDT) TUE AUG 7 2001

A BROAD AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS
NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA EARLY THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH PRECIPITATION IS
EXPECTED TO BE LIGHT...PERIODS OF MODERATE SHOWERS AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE. USE CAUTION TO ASSURE SAFETY DURING OUTDOOR
ACTIVITY.

ASSID

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 136 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:57 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Foster

When: August 7, 8:55 PM CST
Where: Foster County, Carrington
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 47.450, -99.133

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

More

Every storm in North Dakota in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5257331.