Tornado, Stark
- When
- July 24, 6:51 PM CST
- Where
- Stark County, 1 mi NW of Dickinson
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 46.900, -102.800
Tornado briefly touched ground over open country.
Tornado in North Dakota, July 24, 2002
1 tornado, 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 Jul 24, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 250 PM CDT WED JUL 24 2002 THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN A SHORT WAVE THAT WILL MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE AVN IS A LOT FASTER...BUT WE BELIEVE THE SLOWER ETA WHICH HAS BEEN MORE RELIABLE WITH SMALL IMPULSES THE LAST 2 DAYS. UPPER FLOW BECOMES STRAIGHT NORTHWEST WITH DRYING BOUNDARY LAYER LATER TONIGHT. THE CHANCE OF PRECIP THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT IS WELL BELOW CLIMATOLOGY. A WESTERN TROUGH WILL MOVE EAST TOWARDS ND THURSDAY NIGHT...AND MODELS SHOW A PRECEEDING SHORTWAVE ENTERING THE REGION FRIDAY FOR ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE CHANCE OF CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE UNTIL SUNDAY WHEN THE MAIN UPPER TROUGH ROTATES THROUGHT THE REGION. THEN THE MRF FORECASTS A DRYER NORTHWEST FLOW FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK. .BIS...NONE. LM
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 156 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:52 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 24, 2002
- Hail in South Dakota, July 24, 2002
- Hail in South Dakota, July 24, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 24, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 24, 2002
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 24, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, July 24 to 25, 2002
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Dakota, 2002Warnings in North Dakota, July 2002
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: 5310355.