Thunderstorm Wind, Stutsman
- When
- July 18, 8:56 PM CST
- Where
- Stutsman County, 6 mi S of Jamestown
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 46.817, -98.700
Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 18, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 18, 1:40 PM CST, 7 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 1:40 PM CST, 7 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 240 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001 AREA RADARS AND SATELLITE INDICATE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN MONTANA MOVING NORTHEAST WITH AN UPPER LEVEL VORT MAX. DEWPOINTS IN WESTERN ND ARE IN THE UPPER 50S AND LOWER 60S WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE LOWER 70S IN CENTRAL ND. AN INVERTED TROUGH IS JUST EAST OF A LINE FROM MINOT TO BISMARCK. THE INDICIES INDICATE INSTABILITY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. CONSEQUENTLY EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION AGAIN THIS EVENING...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS GREATEST ALONG AND EAST OF THE TROUGH. WITH THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE EAST OF THE STATE AND AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH TO THUE WEST THROUGH THE WEEKEND...DON'T SEE AN END TO THE CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL UNTIL MONDAY. MOS SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE WARM ON HIGHS AND WILL TREND TOWARD AVN. .BIS...NONE. TSW
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:45 PM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
745 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0742 PM ELDRIDGE ND .75 INCH HAIL
07/18/01 STUTSMANLocal storm report, Jul 18, 6:55 PM CST, 2 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
755 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0751 PM ELDRIDGE ND 1 INCH HAIL
07/18/01 STUTSMAN REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.Local storm report, Jul 18, 7:30 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
830 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0824 PM JAMESTOWN ND 1 INCH HAIL
07/18/01 STUTSMAN REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.Local storm report, Jul 18, 7:37 PM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
837 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0825 PM 2 NW LEHR ND 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/18/01 LOGAN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Jul 18, 8:17 PM CST, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
917 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0853 PM 15 NE JUD ND TORNADO
07/18/01 LA MOURE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0855 PM 10 NW EDGELEY ND TORNADO
07/18/01 LA MOURE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0906 PM 20 SW RHAME ND 1.25 INCH HAIL
07/18/01 BOWMANThe radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:56 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, July 18 to 19, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, July 18, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in South Dakota, July 18 to 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 18, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, July 18, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 18, 2001
- Flash Flood in Ohio, July 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 18, 2001
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 18, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Montana, July 18, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 18, 2001
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5256970.