Name: Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 22, 2001
Start: 2001-07-22T04:50
End: 2001-07-22T04:50
Location: North Dakota

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

Open the live radar over this ground

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 22, 2:00 AM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:00 AM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
300 AM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001

BOW TYPE ECHO WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING INTO CENTRAL
ND...PUSHED ALONG BY BY A COLD POOL THAT IS BEST SHOWN ON THE ETA
MDL. WIND DAMAGE IS MAIN CONCERN WITH THESE STORMS. OTHERWISE A
SOUTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES OVER THE REGION TODAY WITH ANOTHER
SHORTWAVE MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
THIS FEATURE WILL TRACK ACROSS THE NORTH EARLY TONIGHT...AND SEVERE
WX IS AGAIN POSSIBLE. THEN THE FLOW BECOMES MORE ZONAL MONDAY WITH
ANOTHER IMPULSE  CAUSING A CHANCE OF CONVECTIVE PRECIP BY AFTERNOON.
THEN THE MAIN WESTERN TROUGH SHEARS OFF AND THE NORTHERN BRANCH ENTERS
ND TUESDAY MORNING. WILL UPDATE THE EXTENDED FORECAST FOR CENTRAL ND
TO REFLECT THIS CHANCE OF PRECIP ON TUESDAY.

.BIS...NONE.
LM

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 22, 1:17 AM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
217 AM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001

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

0900 PM    FORT UNION TRADING POST   ND   WIND AND HAIL DAMAGE.
07/20/01   NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE         SHINGLES TORN OFF
           WILLIAMS                       VISITOR CENTER ROOF.
                                          TEEPEES HELD DOWN BY
                                          4 FOOT IRON STAKES PULLED
                                          UP AND SHREDDED BY HAIL.

CJT

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 3:35 AM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

NDZ042-220945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
435 AM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 AM MDT...

AT 330 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY...NEAR CARSON...OR 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
MANDAN. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. LARK AND RALEIGH ARE IN
THE PATH OF THE STORM.

JV

Local storm report, Jul 22, 4:23 AM CST, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND

523 AM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001

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

           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0432 AM    (BIS)BISMARCK MUNI ARPT   ND   70 MPH TSTM GUST

07/22/01   BURLEIGH                       BISMARCK NATIONAL

                                          WEATHER SERVICE

Local storm report, Jul 22, 4:25 AM CST, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND

525 AM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001

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

           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1230 AM    8 S ALEXANDER             ND   58 MPH TSTM GUST

07/22/01   MCKENZIE                       REPORTED BY STORM

                                          SPOTTER.

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:40 AM CST, 10 minutes before

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-221500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
540 AM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001

...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CENTRAL THIS MORNING...
...A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEST AND CENTRAL THIS
AFTERNOON...

.FORECAST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL END THIS MORNING...
BUT THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING AGAIN THIS
AFTERNOON. SOME MAY BE SEVERE.

.DISCUSSION...A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL PERSIST OVER WEST AND
CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA TODAY AND TONIGHT. A SHORTWAVE WILL ENTER THE
WEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE EAST TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS
WILL PROBABLY DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE WAVE. HIGH INSTABILITY AND FAVORABLE
WIND SHEAR COULD RESULT IN SOME SEVERE STORMS.

SKYWARN SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.

THIS PRODUCT IS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES.

LM

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:50 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Logan

When: July 22, 4:50 AM CST
Where: Logan County, Gackle
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 46.633, -99.133

Cooperative observer reported numerous tree branches down.

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

More

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: 5257230.