Hail, La Moure
- When
- May 31, 2:18 PM CST
- Where
- La Moure County, 5 mi N of Edgeley
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 46.433, -98.700
Hail in North Dakota, May 31, 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.
NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 31, 3:09 AM CST, 11 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 3:09 AM CST, 11 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 400 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001 THERMAL RIDGE INDICATED BY H85 TEMP RIDGE WILL DESTABILIZE ATMOSPHERE AS H5/H7 COLD ADVECTION BEGINS THIS AFTERNOON. WILL MENTION THUNDERSTORMS EAST CENTRAL...POSSIBLY SEVERE. AS H5 COLD POOL MOVES THROUGH ERN ND TONIGHT AND FRIDAY WILL SEE CONSIDERABLE CLOUDS AND SHOWERS CENTRAL AND ERN CWA. FOR THE MOST PART THE WEST SHOULD BE DRY. FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY WILL BE DOMINATED BY SFC HIGH PRESSURE. HOWEVER...ANOTHER COLD VORTEX ALOFT WILL SWING THROUGH FROM THE NORTHWETS US SATURADY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. EXTENDED PERIOD LOOKS OK WITH CHC THUNDERSTORMS. .BIS...NONE. WA @ RUKWBCe KDENFXUS63 KBIS 310909 CCA AFDBIS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 400 AM CDT THU MAY 31 2001 THERMAL RIDGE INDICATED BY H85 TEMP RIDGE WILL DESTABILIZE ATMOSPHERE AS H5/H7 COLD ADVECTION BEGINS THIS AFTERNOON. WILL MENTION THUNDERSTORMS EAST CENTRAL...POSSIBLY SEVERE. AS H5 COLD POOL MOVES THROUGH ERN ND TONIGHT AND FRIDAY WILL SEE CONSIDERABLE CLOUDS AND SHOWERS CENTRAL AND ERN CWA. FOR THE MOST PART THE WEST SHOULD BE DRY. FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY WILL BE DOMINATED BY SFC HIGH PRESSURE. HOWEVER...ANOTHER COLD VORTEX ALOFT WILL SWING THROUGH FROM THE NORTHWETS US SATURADY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. EXTENDED PERIOD LOOKS OK WITH CHC THUNDERSTORMS. .BIS...NONE. WA
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 31, 1:29 PM CST, 49 minutes before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
229 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0129 PM 3 W MC HENRY ND .5 INCH HAIL
05/31/01 FOSTER REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0129 PM 5 WNW LINTON ND .5 INCH HAIL
05/31/01 EMMONS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0129 PM 8 N LINTON ND .5 INCH HAIL
05/31/01 EMMONS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
NNNNLocal storm report, May 31, 1:34 PM CST, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
234 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0129 PM 3 W MC HENRY ND .5 INCH HAIL
05/31/01 FOSTER REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0220 PM 5 WNW LINTON ND .5 INCH HAIL
05/31/01 EMMONS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0225 PM 8 N LINTON ND .5 INCH HAIL
05/31/01 EMMONS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0234 PM JAMESTOWNr ND .25 INCH HAIL
05/31/01 STUTSMAN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICAL.
NNNNThe radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:18 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
- Tornadoes in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 31, 2001
- Tornado in Illinois, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 31, 2001
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, May 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: 5243157.