Name: Hail in North Dakota, September 6, 2001
Start: 2001-09-06T19:15
End: 2001-09-06T19:15
Location: North Dakota

Where it happened

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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 Sep 6, 2:20 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 2:20 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
320 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2001

SFC LOW APPROACHING ABR IN ERN SD WI COLD FRONT EXTENDING JUST TO
THE EAST OF JMS AND NEARING GFK. AREA OF CONCERN FOR STRONG TO
SEVERE TSTMS FROM S CNTRL SD JUST SW OF LOW. LATEST SAT PICS SHOW
CLOUDS S OF LOW AND ALONG COLD FRONT TRYING TO ORGANIZE WITH CLEAR
AREA IN ERN SD WHERE STRONG SLY WINDS...DWPTS IN THE MID TO UPPER
60S HAS GOOD INSTABILITY WI LIS OF AROUND -6. SHOULD TSTMS DEVELOP
AND PROPAGATE NEWD MIGHT CLIP SERN COUNTIES OF ND...INCLUDING
DICKEY/LAMOURE COUNTIES SE OF JMS. MAY HAVE TO BREAK OFF THOSE 2
COUNTIES FOR POSSIBLY SEVERE MENTION FOR THE EVE. WL MAKE LAST
MINUTE DECISION DEPENDING ON POSITION OF COLD FRONT. OTHERWISE SCT
SHOWERS EXPECTED ACROSS CWA TONIGHT...WI TSTMS POSSIBLE CNTRL.

ON FRI LARGE H500 TROUGH DIGS SWD INTO ND. COLD AIR ADVECTS INTO STA
WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE. H500 COLD TEMPS ALOFT AND SOME SFC HEATING
ALLOWS LIS TO BECOME NEGATIVE IN THE AFTN...AND WL PUT SCT SHOWERS
AND TSTMS OVER ALL OF CWA. H500 LOW REMAINS ENTRENCHED OVER STA
THROUGH SAT...SO SCT SHOWERS FRI NIGHT...AND SCT SHOWERS AND TSTMS
AGAIN ON SAT AS LIS GO NEGATIVE WI BETTER INSTABILITY. H1000-500
THKNS VALUES OF 543 TO 546 ENTER THE STA FRI NIGHT AND REMAIN
THROUGH SUN. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S EXPECTED. WOULD MENTION 30S IF
EXPECTED CLEARING SKIES...BUT COOL AND MOIST ATMOS EXPECTED TO
REMAIN MOSTLY CLOUDY THROUGH SAT.

IN THE EXTENDED...NEW AVN DIFFERS FROM MRF RUN ON BEGINNING AROUND
12Z MON. NEW AVN KEEPS LARGE H500 LOW OVER S CNTRL CANADA...WHILE
MRF BUILDS A H500 RIDGE OVER THE ROCKIES AND MOVES IT EWD AND PUSHES
LARGE H500 LOW EWD. THIS ALLOWS SHORTWAVES TO MOVE THROUGH THE FLOW
INTO ND TUE NIGHT/WED WITH SFC TROUGH APPROACHING FROM THE WEST AND
TSTM CHCS. AVN DEVELOPS A LOW OVER THE WRN/ROCKIES STATES...KEEPING
A DRY ZONAL FLOW OVER ND. KEPT EXTENDED DRY AS NATNL DISCUSSIONS
LEANING TWDS LATEST AVN TREND.

.BIS...NONE.
VINING

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 6, 6:37 PM CST, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
737 PM CDT THU SEP 06 2001

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

0725 PM    9 NW FORBES               ND   1 INCH HAIL
09/06/01   DICKEY                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:14 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Dickey

When: September 6, 7:15 PM CST
Where: Dickey County, 5 mi N of Ellendale
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 46.067, -98.517

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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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, September 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: 5268028.