Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 18, 2001

Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 18, 2001
Start: 2001-07-18T00:10
End: 2001-07-18T01:30
Location: North Dakota

July 18, 2001 · NWS FGF · 4 events in 3 counties and zones

3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $2,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 4

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 Jul 17, 7:00 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 7:00 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before

FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
800 PM CDT TUE JUL 17 2001

...DUE TO ONGOING SEVERE WEATHER...THE EVENING AFfD WILL BE DELAYED...

THE EVENING FORECAST DISCUSSION AND ZONE UPDATES WILL OCCUR ONCE THE
SEVERE WEATHER SUBSIDES...

RJT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 6:29 PM CST, 5 hours 41 minutes before

NDZ014-015-024-026>030-180100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
729 PM CDT TUE JUL 17 2001

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED...

AT 700 PM CDT...THE ATMOSPHERE HAS STABILIZED OVER BENSON...
RAMSEY...NELSON...GRAND FORKS...EDDY...GRIGGS...STEELE AND TRAILL
COUNTIES OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. WHILE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND
MUCH OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT.

RJT

Local storm report, Jul 18, 12:07 AM CST, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
107 AM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0337 PM    10 N BEMIDJI              MN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0350 PM    9 N BEMIDJI               MN   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI                       AMATUER RADIO REPORT

0350 PM    7 W FINLEY                ND   2 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   GRIGGS

0354 PM    9 N BEMIDJI               MN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI                       AMATUER RADIO REPORT

0400 PM    7 N BEMIDJI               MN   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0404 PM    4 E COOPERSTOWN           ND   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   GRIGGS

0405 PM    10 N BEMIDJI              MN   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI                       AMATUER RADIO REPORT

0405 PM    5 W FINLEY                ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   STEELE

0405 PM    5 W FINLEY                ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   STEELE

0425 PM    3 N BEMIDJI               MN   1.5 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0428 PM    3 S FINLEY                ND   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   STEELE

0430 PM    10 NW FOUR TOWN           MN   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0430 PM    11 NW FOUR TOWN           MN   1.25 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0435 PM    5 N HOPE                  ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   STEELE

0435 PM    3 S SALOL                 MN   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   ROSEAU

0435 PM    2 NW BEMIDJI              MN   1.5 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0440 PM    10 N GRYGLA               MN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   MARSHALL

0453 PM    4 W KELLIHER              MN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0459 PM    15 E BEMIDJI              MN   2.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0500 PM    7 SW FINLEY               ND   2 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   STEELE                         GROUND WAS WHITE; HAIL
                                          FELL FOR OVER 15 MINUTES

0510 PM    9 E COOPERSTOWN           ND   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   STEELE

0521 PM    BEMIDJI                   MN   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI                       AMATUER RADIO REPORT

0550 PM    GRACETON                  MN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   LAKE OF THE WOODS

0550 PM    GRACETON                  MN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   LAKE OF THE WOODS

0600 PM    LYNCHBURG                 ND   2.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   CASS

0620 PM    3 NE CHAFFEE              ND   3 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   CASS

0624 PM    3 W REDBY                 MN   TORNADO
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0624 PM    SAUM                      MN   TORNADO
07/17/01   BELTRAMI                       AMATUER RADIO REPORT

0631 PM    6 N BEMIDJI               MN   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0636 PM    4 N BEMIDJI               MN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI                       REPORT FROM THE NORTH
                                          SHORE OF LAKE BEMIDJI FROM
                                          AMATUER RADIO

0638 PM    BEMIDJI                   MN   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0643 PM    6 N BEMIDJI               MN   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0650 PM    9 N BEMIDJI               MN   1.5 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0652 PM    2 S TURTLE RIVER          MN   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0656 PM    3 SW FUNKLEY              MN   TORNADO
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0658 PM    5 NW FUNKLEY              MN   TORNADO
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0700 PM    7 E BEMIDJI               MN   .88 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0700 PM    FUNKLEY                   MN   TORNADO
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0705 PM    1 E FUNKLEY               MN   TORNADO
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0710 PM    7 N BEMIDJI               MN   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0727 PM    8 SE LEONARD              ND   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   RICHLAND

0727 PM    8 SE LEONARD              ND   70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/17/01   RICHLAND

0728 PM    HINES                     MN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0731 PM    TENSTRIKE                 MN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0736 PM    4 E KINDRED               ND   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   RICHLAND

0740 PM    BROCKET                   ND   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   RAMSEY

0744 PM    OYLEN                     MN   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   WADENA

0745 PM    14 E BEMIDJI              MN   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0747 PM    PONEMAH                   MN   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BELTRAMI

0751 PM    ROOSEVELT                 MN   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   ROSEAU

0755 PM    1 E ROOSEVELT             MN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   LAKE OF THE WOODS

0800 PM    1 E ROOSEVELT             MN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   LAKE OF THE WOODS

0800 PM    8 N BARNEY                ND   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   RICHLAND

0800 PM    8 N BARNEY                ND   WIND DAMAGE
07/17/01   RICHLAND                       BARN AND MACHINE SHED
                                          KNOCKED OVER...RADIO
                                          TOWERS AND TREES ALSO
                                          BLOWN DOWN

0805 PM    MOORETON                  ND   65 MPH TSTM GUST
07/17/01   RICHLAND

0820 PM    MOORETON                  ND   79 MPH TSTM GUST
07/17/01   RICHLAND

0838 PM    10 N PARK RAPIDS          MN   .88 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   HUBBARD

0838 PM    2 S FINGAL                ND   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BARNES

0838 PM    2 S FINGAL                ND   2 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   BARNES

0846 PM    10 NE PARK RAPIDS         MN   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   HUBBARD

0855 PM    7 SW ALICE                ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   CASS

0855 PM    3 SE MOORETON             ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   RICHLAND

0903 PM    FERGUS FALLS              MN   65 MPH TSTM GUST
07/17/01   OTTER TAIL

0915 PM    SHELDON                   ND   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   RANSOM

0955 PM    5 SW LISBON               ND   1.5 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   RANSOM

1007 PM    PARKERS PRAIRIE           MN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   OTTER TAIL

1010 PM    6 S LISBON                ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   RANSOM

1015 PM    7 S LISBON                ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   RANSOM

1100 PM    5 E MOORETON   `           ND   1 INCH HAIL
07/17/01   RICHLAND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:10 UTC.

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Event by event

3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Griggs

When: July 18, 12:10 AM CST
Where: Griggs County, 4 mi W of Binford
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 47.567, -98.433

Hail, Cass

When: July 18, 12:15 AM CST
Where: Cass County, 9 mi N of Tower City
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 47.067, -97.667

Hail, Steele

When: July 18, 1:00 AM CST to 1:15 AM CST
Where: Steele County, 2 mi S of Blabon
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 47.367, -97.800

Thunderstorm Wind, Steele

When: July 18, 1:30 AM CST
Where: Steele County, Hope
Property damage: $2,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 47.317, -97.733

Trees were blown down in Hope.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in North Dakota in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in North Dakota, July 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: 5261114, 5261111, 5261112, 5261113.