Hail, Billings
- When
- July 19, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Billings County, 10 mi N of Fairfield
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 47.333, -103.217
Hail in North Dakota, July 19, 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 7:52 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
NDZ009-017-200255- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 852 PM CDT (752 PM MDT) THU JUL 19 2001 AT 850 PM CDT...LOCAL WARNING RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF FT. BUFORD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR FT. BUFORD AND TRENTON AROUND 900 PM CDT. EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL WITH THIS STORM. MR
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 7:54 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 196 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:43 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
- Rip Current in Delaware, July 19 to 22, 2001
- Heat in Texas, July 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 19, 2001
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Oregon, July 19, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, July 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 19, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 19, 2001
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 19 to 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, July 19, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5257046.