North Dakota, 2001

Hail in North Dakota, July 25, 2001

July 25, 2001 · NWS BIS · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Jul 25, 1:55 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 1:55 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
255 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2001

FORECAST CONTINUES TO BE ONE POP AFTER ANOTHER...SOMETHING I DO NOT
LIKE TO DO...BUT GIVEN THE SITUATION...HAVE NO CHOICE. NGM FROM
YESTERDAY DID A BETTER JOB BY HANGING BACK ON THE PRECIP FOR THIS
MORNING. HOWEVER...WITH TONIGHTS ROUND OF PRECIP IT LOOKS TO TAKE IT
OUT OF THE CWA TOO QUICKLY THURSDAY MORNING. ETA/AVN WERE IN CLOSER
AGREEMENT. ACTUALLY THE FORECAST WILL BE A COMPILATION OF THE 3
MODELS.

PROBLEM THROUGH PERIOD IS CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST FLOW AS
UPPER LOW IN WESTERN SASKATCHEWAN CONTINUES TO ROTATE WEAK WAVES
THROUGH NORTH DAKOTA. SURFACE SUPPORT IS IN THE FORM OF A STALLED
TROF ALONG THE MONTANA BORDER THAT WILL MEANDER EAST AND WEST INTO
THURSDAY. THIS SHOULD ACT AS A FOCUS MECHANISM FOR STORM
DEVELOPMENT. LIFTED INDICES REMAIN 0 TO -4 RANGE NEXT FEW DAYS WITH
CAPES STEADILY RISING...FROM 500 TO 1600.

FEELING IS INDIVIDUAL STORMS WILL FIRE WEST AND FORM INTO A LARGE
COMPLEX OF WEAK STORMS/RAIN...AND MOVE SLOWLY EAST. WITH THAT...WILL
KEEP CHANCES GOING CENTRAL AND EAST THURSDAY MORNING. ONE WAVE AFTER
ANOTHER CONTINUES INTO FRIDAY NIGHT CONTINUING THE CHANCES FOR
STORMS. A POTENTIAL REPERCUSSION COULD BE ON HIGH TEMPS...WITH
CLOUDS/RAIN HOLDING THEM BACK INTO EARLY AFTERNOON. A BREAK COMES
SATURDAY AS MID LEVEL RIDGING RIDGES IN...FOLLOWED BY A DEEPENING H5
LOW IN THE WEST WHICH REESTABLISHES SOUTHWEST FLOW INTO ND FOR
SUNDAY-TUESDAY.

THANKS TO KABR FOR COORDINATION ON POSSIBLE FLASH FLOOD WATCH.
CONCERN IS LOW FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE SOUTHWEST-SOUTH CENTRAL ND INTO
NORTH CENTRAL SD. WILL OPT NOT TO ISSUE ONE NOW AS QPF IS HIGHLY
UNCERTAIN. AND IF STORMS DO FORM INTO A LARGE AREA OF RAIN IT WOULD
REDUCE THE RISK OF FFLOODING...SPREADING RAIN AMOUNTS OUT OVER TIME.
WILL PASS ON TO EVENING SHIFT TO RE-EVALUATE.

.BIS...NONE.

GJP MARTIN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:47 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
NDZ001-009-017-252345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
547 PM CDT (447 PM MDT) WED JUL 25 2001

AT 540 PM CDT (440 PM MDT) RADAR IN WILLISTON INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING JUST EAST OF LAMBERT IN RICHLAND COUNTY IN
NORTHEAST MONTANA. MOVEMENT AT THIS TIME APPEARS TO BE TO THE
NORTHEAST. MORE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER OR MAY MOVE INTO
DIVIDE...WILLIAMS AND MCKENZIE COUNTIES FROM EASTERNX MONTANA. HEAVY
RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTENING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
PARTICULAR STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES.

RV

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 247 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:21 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Golden Valley

When
July 25, 6:20 PM CST
Where
Golden Valley County, 6 mi S of Beach
Measured
1.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
46.833, -104.000

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

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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: 5257296.